Monitoring Refugee movement with Google Maps

I thought this was an interesting article on CNN ... about 4 headlines down this afternoon.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/08/google.refugees.ap/index.html

Hightlights of the story ... note the last one. Very interesting ...

• Google, U.N. team up to help pinpoint refugee movement
• Maps will aid humanitarian operations, help inform about refugee crises
• Special maps help track, give information about crises in each area
• Google considering stand-alone version of its mapping software for field work