Canada's Globe and Mail

Patrick White of Canada's Globe and Mail writes about how

Amateur cartographers are going high-tech to make the most unexpected online maps

I am humbled/honored because Patrick starts off the article with a mention about me and the work I do.

Odds are you've never heard of Virender Ajmani.

But there is a good chance you've used one of his maps.

By day, Mr. Ajmani is a soft-spoken software developer living a quiet life with his wife and two kids in Detroit.

By night, he is one of the world's most prolific and influential map-makers, churning out geographic guides to the American election, state-by-state health insurance stats or the United States' hardest-drinking cities.

"It's an addiction now," he said. "I don't go out much any more."

On that last point "I don't go out much any more" is because my wife met with a serious auto accident in late 2006 which has left her semi disabled. Its been a painful slow recovery. So I am trying to do something useful (and not feel miserable about things) by communicating what's happening around the world via maps and I am enjoying it.

MIBAZAAR's OBAMA and MCCAIN's Google Maps based journey gets notable mentions

Yesterday The Google LatLong Blog announced the official release of "Elections '08 Map Gallery" where they list political maps through which you can learn about this year's race for the United States Presidency and also you can

show off your favorites by embedding them around the web for the world to see.

4 of the maps (Primary Results, Twitter, Search Queries, and Campaign Trail) were made by Google itself. In addition they mentioned 2 of my maps (OBama and McCain's map based journey).

Another HUGE mention was in TECHCRUNCH in a post titled "Google Maps Gets Political" where my OBAMA map has been embedded.

Another mention I noticed via stats to my site is from Radio Canada.

Also noticed in NEWSDAY.