"All they did was poke the hornet's nest, " says Kyle Scott, who runs a Phillies-fan blog and has launched a counterattack he calls "The Takeover, " complete with an online map of the stadium pointing out where traveling fans should set up camps.

WSJ: For D.C. Baseball Team, Deluge

After the Asian tsunami ESRI India set up, for free, a center in Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu in the south to map the villages that were affected and offered information on the population of each village and the damage sustained.

FORBES: Map Mania

It is not easy to come into the England set-up at that age but Steve made me feel welcome and he put me on the map.

BBC: Micah Richards column

For the museum's Pacific Hall, set to reopen in the fall, Ms. Ide came up with the idea to put a large map on a new wood floor, inlaid with images of islands and letters in contrasting wood to draw visitors into the sweep of the original Pacific migration to Hawaii.

WSJ: At the Side of an Expert Exhibitionist: Melanie Ide

When they set up shop in India, most computer companies opt for Bangalore, 500 kilometers south of Hyderabad (see map).

FORBES: Microsoft's passage to India