I like this Googlemaps mash up with the Fortune 500 list; Its from their annual ranking of the world’s largest corporations:
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Its from the article
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July 8th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Interesting chart but I didn’t realize Toyota had moved their headquarters to a small island off the west coast of Africa.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Didn’t Halliburton, despite all of their U.S. government contracts, defect to the U.A.E.?
July 8th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Seems the one out in the water south of Nigeria disappears when you click on the map. Maybe they went out of business?
July 8th, 2010 at 11:32 am
Above map is screenshot, likely they had a 0,0 pair for Toyota’s GPS coords, which is why it appeared off the coast of Africa, and has since been fixed, thus it not appearing there anymore when you click through..
/webdeveloper
July 8th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Pirates!
July 8th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
hahaha, in this economy I wouldn’t be surprised if they were F500
July 8th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
hooever wrote that mapp spels wurrse then I du.
July 8th, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Now, why are there no companies from China?
July 8th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
they don’t have the same map.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_companies_of_China
what kind of north they use, magnetic or grid north?