http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/19/women-egypt-sexual-harassment-harassmap

Another interesting new application for "open source mapping technology", which could make a very real and important contribution to womens safety in Egypt. As well as providing instant advice and support to victims of sexual harassment, it builds up a "publicly available map of harassment hotspots", in order to highlight areas of potential danger. However, whether the much-maligned Egyptian authorities will use this information to increase effective policing of such areas, and improve the levels of safety and security for women where it is obviously necessary, is not yet clear. The fact that an independent group of volunteers have noticed such a serious issue that they have developed quite such an application for this technology, really highlights the need for it, and the apparent lack of policing of this kind of problem. Whether the graphic output of this application, which will be viewable online here http://harassmap.org/ will be used to it's full effect is yet to be seen, but it could certainly be a very powerful and important tool in bringing a stop to this threat of harassment and abuse of women in Egypt.