Helping Pakistan Find the Terrorists/Taliban?

A funny thing happened when I stepped away from the computer this evening:

Watching an interview by NBC's Anne Curry with Pakistan's President Ali Asif Zardari on the Nightly News, he proposed a simple solution to stymie the terrorists in Pakistan: “Give us the intelligence, and we will do the job."

As NBC showed nice Google Earth imagery over Pakistan, I thought about Tim O'Reilly's suggestion last week at the Web 2.0 Expo "...to ask yourself, are we working on the right things?"

So with all the crowd sourcing, the updated disaster imagery of hurricane and fire impact areas, and the mantra of "Do no evil" of Google - Why can't we crowd source the study of imagery of the Pakistan hills?

With enough eyeballs on decent satellite imagery, we could spot every frickin movement of cows, camels, clouds, and cohorts.

Then we could give Pakistan all the intelligence it supposedly needs to capture the bad guys.

Could we accomplish this without endangering the good guys?

Just thinking...

A little disclosure - I did recently see Morgan Spurlock's Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

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Demo of Mapicurious on the Dash GPS

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Real Housewives of Atlanta Map

Just to answer fans of the show -

"Yes, we will have a map about the show."

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Need a Map? We need only USD $100 and some information....

Many people have great map ideas but no time to create them. Hopefully a Mapicurious staffer can lend a hand.

Give us as little as a theme....
- I want a map of ski slopes in Vermont
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And we will create your map. Your data will then be ready to viewed in Google Earth, your GPS, your cell phone, your Dash GPS.

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Starting July 1, 2008 we offer map making on your behalf for a fee:

1. Give us an overall theme and title for your map.

2. Give us up to 25 locations with any amount of detail: Name, Street, City, State, Zip, Country, picture, movie, and/or your comments

3. Send us USD $100 via PayPal.

4. We will produce a map hosted on Mapicurious.com, our partner services, and you will have your information in portable form (KML).

We have a lot of talented Mapicurious staffers to make impressive maps - take advantage while you can.

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