Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Couple things of interest:

Population Explorer – Select ‘Draw Freehand Shape’ and create a box around your target area. Double click to deactivate the shape tool. Then select ‘Analyze shape’. It gives you the population and population density within that shape. So..wanna see if that new property you were looking at is as remote as youd like? Heres a tool to do that. Not sure how accurate it is, but its fun to play with.

In a turnabout, police are the good guys in post-quake Haiti – Apparently when the cops arent being paid and have to rely on the kindness of strangers they stop being corrupt. Imagine that.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — In the hours and days after the city crumbled and the enfeebled government of Haiti disappeared from public view, a remarkable thing happened here: The police showed up for work.

New Orleans PD could take a lesson from this, I’m sure.