Air Traffic around the World - Amazing!!

Take a look at this video of air traffic over a 24 hour period around the world.
Very interesting. Frequency of Trans-Atlantic Flights increase as the sun sets over east coast of United States. (via GoogleMapsMania)

Singing Competitions from India - Mapped!

There are couple of Singing Completions taking place on Indian Television. Both are extremely popular with world wide following.

SA RE GA MA PA Challenge 2007 - The auditions for this show was held all over the world. The show narrowed down to 14 finalists (1 from Houston, TX, 3 from Pakistan, 10 from India). Here's a Google Maps View of the Contestants (includes YouTube video clips).

Indian Idol 3 - The format here is the same as American IDOL. Check out the Google Maps View of Indian IDOL 3 Contestants.

Note: In both of these Google Maps Mashups, a Information Window opens up for a random marker on initial page load. Click on the participant image at the top of the page for information window to open up for that particular participant.

On this day in 2005 - Mumbai, India is paralyzed with 37.2 inches of rain

Mumbai, India recieved 37.2 inches of rain in a 24 hour period on July 26th, 2005. This was followed by another 22.6 inches of rain the next day. Most places don't even get this much rain in a year. Human tragedy as a result - (233 from drowning, 120 from landslide, 24 from stampede, 126 from suffocation in cars after water levels rose rapidly preventing escape, 12 from electrocution) (more at wikpedia)
Google Maps view of Mumbai the city I grew up in.


Video of Mumbai Flood releif 2005