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Ideas for Physics Outreach and Maps

Google is offering grants for between 10 and 20 thousand dollars for outreach work  utilizing geographic mapping web applications[1].  The deadline for proposals is April 18th [2].  So, here's the question.  As physicists, is there any kind of outreach that we could do utilizing any or all of the  Google map frameworks [3]? Could we work with the  +American Physical Society  and/or the  +Society of Physics Students  to map historical events in physics around the world?  Perhaps an app similar to AT&Ts Air Graffiti [4] that would automatically display events in physics history on your smartphone when you neared a location would be cool.  Maybe it would be useful to index all the papers in PROLA by university so when you visited a school, you would automatically be served a list of papers published there.  A searchable map of outreach activities as well as physics colloquiums, workshops, and meetings would be handy. ...