MapLinx or ESRI Buisness Map OSS Replacement

[Jon Pruente]

Pardon me if I'm being a link-post-nut, but I keep finding good links
to stuff that might be of interest in a (the) mapping project.  I
don't want to link to the whole archive of blog posts that these come
from, as it does contain NSFW images, so I'm just linking the
particular entries. Like this one:
http://www.zentastic.com/entries/200503161227.html - A full day of
usage mapping for a members only 10,000 user website, with an
animation of it and how it was made.
http://www.zentastic.com/entries/200503182255.html - I'm not sure if
he's still up for it, but he offered to make the same thing for other
websites.
http://www.zentastic.com/entries/200503191258.html - Examples of more data
http://www.zentastic.com/entries/200503201831.html - Tweaking and featurizing
http://www.zentastic.com/entries/200503181128.html - Wondered what
else bot-nets do?  Ask they guy who runs a site attacked by them (for
years), and who keeps records.  And likes analyzing and modeling
statistical data and locating where the nets are located.  Way better
guy to talk to than some "security expert" who tracked down a few
bot-net  attacks and *speculates* on what they try to do.

If one doesn't mind some NSFW images and some rather disturbing images
once in a while, there are myriad cool techy posts in his blog.  A lot
of his little tools and widgets are free, if you can find them.  He
does so much odd stuff that even he has a hard time finding it again
at times...

As I've mentioned, even just from a consulting stand point, he's a
good person to ask about filtering/modeling data, gathering public
info from various govt servers, etc.  From his own projects alone I
know one can get high res world images and name to location tables,
etc.  Sometimes the odd people are the ones who do or have already
done a lot of the work for you.

Jon.