Nice video on the border between Canada and USA

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2014/04/25/306535819/-don-t-touch-me-said-canada-i-won-t-said-the-usa-so-they-moved-20-feet-apart

Definitely worth breaking out the headphones for...

Gartner's Hype Cycle

While the post is primarily about location intelligence, there are also interesting points on the graph (especially re: Big Data).

http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/location-intelligence-hits-gartners-hype-cycle/395333

Earthquakes this year to end of April in beautiful animation

Stunning animation of the earthquakes on the globe this year to the end of April

Stereotyping Europe

http://geoawesomeness.com/slicing-europe-20-stereotypes/

Open Addresses

I haven't used it yet, but seems like another great open data initiative.  Open addresses - add to it or use for geocoding...

http://openaddresses.io/

New Zealand's most deprived areas

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11254032

New Zealand Herald has posted an interactive map of deprivation in New Zealand using the latest deprivation index.

New Zealand Oil Spill Map

This rather neat visualization was produced by a Wellington based data science and data visualization company - Dumpark.

The map based data visualization produced for Greenpeace shows the potential spread of oil after a deep sea oil drilling well blow out.

[via Andrew Parnell]