Mikel Maron presented some cool hacks at Where 2.0 this morning.  Here are some highlights:

BBC Bangladesh River Journey:  Hacked maps, twitter tweets, Flickr all in one place.  The expedition crew used a satellite phone, GPS,  and a laptop and dynamically built and updated the journey website.  The crew geotagged all posts and pictures.  When they submitted their Tweets/pics, a custom API parsed nanoformats out of the Tweets and Flickr photos using nanoformat parsing suite.  This built the maps very simply and quickly for the expedition crew.  For all the details on the API they built, and ways you can remix it, check out http://bangladeshboat.welcomebackstage.com/. Here's the site, it's pretty cool.  By the way, check out the cool hack to get the Google bubble to live outside the map.  This was a major hack that free's the bubble to exist anywhere on the page and exceed the map div.

UNDP Environment Projects:

The UNDP had tons of projects and didn't have them mapped.  To easily map them, Mikel built a simple API that allowed end users to go from RSS -> Mapufacture --> GeoRSS.  If staff had the credentials, they could edit the feeds.  Mapufacture ingested the RSS, geotagged it and pushed out GeoRSS.  That was hack #1.  Hack #2 was a lightbox using Lightbox 2 to drop the map on top of the webpage to maximize map real estate without completely obscuring the webpage.  Hack #3 was to add different icons for each category or class of project and have a TOC that allows the user to toggle the contents of the map.  Very cool stuff.  Check it out: