We’ve just posted a map of Kabul, Afghanistan built from spatial networks map data. I built this a couple of months back (with TileMill) for some mobile field collection project work we were doing with Fulcrum. This is the sort of challenging work that our company is out there doing, bringing high-tech (yet cheap and simple) solutions to up-and-coming communities like Kabul.

Foreign Policy series of photos from Afghanistan, through Hipstamatic.

Also see their Hipstamatic photos of the Afghan War.

P.J. O’Rourke on his time in Afghanistan:

“Traditionalism being one of the things that makes Afghanistan so hard for Americans to understand. We Americans have so many traditions. For instance our political traditions date back to the 12th-century English Parliament if not to the Roman Senate. Afghans, on the other hand, have had the representative democracy kind of politics for only six years. Afghanistan’s political traditions are just beginning to develop. A Pashtun tribal leader told me that a ‘problem among Afghan politicians is that they do not tell the truth.’ It’s a political system so new that...