"Where 09" is a fine conference put on by O'Reilly Publishing. At this year's
conference, Jack Dangermond, honcho at ESRI, talked about "Realizing Spatial
Intelligence on the GeoWeb." Take note of how he and a colleague use a command
in Google Maps - “Greeley: mapservers” -- to call up a bunch of map servers
and their files for, in this case, Greeley, Colo.

That's a neat search tool that may give you quite mixed results depending on how
GIS hip your local governments are. It seems to work for many non-U.S. cities,
too. For example, "Amsterdam: mapserver" returned good results, but nothing for
Mexico City or Berlin. Still, we think the search tool. while young, has a lot
of promise, especially if you can find the time to drill down into the metadata
for individual maps.

For the Dangermond presentation (15 min) go to:
http://where.blip.tv/file/2151502/