Platial enables anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of Places that matter to them. - http://platial.com/splash

The Plazes website automatically detects your location and connects you to people and places nearby. - http://www.plazes.com

Photosynth combines overlapping photos from a place and explore the place in detail from different angles - http //photosynth.net//

World Wind 1.4 lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. - http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

FixMyStreet gets your street fixed. Enter your Great Britain postcode, stick a pin in the map, type in your problem and zoom!… off it goes to the council. - http://www.mysociety.org
/projects/fixmystreet/

Yahoo! Geo Location Platform provides a resource for managing all geo-permanent named places on Earth. - http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

Otis MFA in Public Practice

Social Practices Graduate Program, California College of the Arts

UMass Amherst and Hancock Shaker Village Graduate Program in Historic Preservation

Masters in Public Art Studies @ USC

Geneva Postgraduate Program: Art, Landscape, Place, Sound Space

MA in "Space Strategies: Exploratory Art in Public Contexts"

Leighton Artists Colony @ Banff