As of this afternoon, 52 banks have failed in 2009, 7 just today. Over at Portal Seven they’ve merged the full list of failures with Google Maps to create a map showing all the banks, and a few other interesting graphics.
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Thank you for this article really a big help for everyone.
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Really interesting! It’s amazing the spreading and the continuos birth of geographical information services. Thanks to Google maps Api this is possible for anyone! In this blog are archived the most of these: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
Some of these are really strange, look at this one: http://www.parkr.info/