Geographic information systems (GIS) have come quite close to maturity these days. Not only is software available freely to perform spatial analyses, but the data is also becoming more open.

We feel that physical barriers can also be erased using GIS. While there is a digital divide between the more and less developed worlds, people can celebrate what they have in common based on similarities in their geographic features. The purpose of this website is to introduce techniques to using GIS for discovery and sharing.

• http://mappr.com/mappr.phtml?tag=route66
• http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/gis/siteofweek.html
• http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html
• http://www.buddymapping.com/ This place offers the ability to have a personalized map of your buddies based on where they say they are from. It may be an effective way to find people from certain parts of the world.
• http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/ Other amazing uses of mashup maps are found here.

Wanna meet new people? Without mySpaCe?! Yes. YES!! truer than true is GEOGRAPHY!!!