Marko Ahtisaari and team have created something interesting and relevant given the activities in Washington D.C. earlier today.

Yet another cool example of what you can do with the right technology and maps – Check this out:

Dopplr generated what they call the Personal Annual Reportfor all their users. It’s a unique-to-you PDF of data, visualisations and factoids about your travel in 2008, that they’re delivering over the next week via email to every Dopplr user who travelled in 2008.

To give you an example, they have published the Personal Annual Report of someone who’s had a very busy 2008 – President Elect Barack Obama.

Download a PDF copy of Barack Obama’s 2008 Dopplr Personal Annual Report from http://dplr.it/obama-report

The main info-visualisation element of the report is the 2008 timeline, where Dopplr represent the trips you’ve taken throughout the year, pulling out the places you’ve stayed the longest and, where Dopplr can illustrate them with the Creative-Commons-licenced, Flickr-sourced photography we use on our new city pages.

Then, in the main body of the report there are a number of other things from your 2008 we try and surface, such as the fellow travellers that you coincide with most on your trips.

There’s the by-now-familiar Dopplr map of your travels which in Obama’s case tells a very interesting tale based on the shape of his campaign. You can see the perhaps-unusual whistlestop trips to Europe, the Middle-East, and Afghanistan – the barely-visible dots of which indicate the brevity of those stops.

Taking a closer look at the USA, the pattern of the campaign becomes more apparent. Larger circles correspond to battleground states during the campaign and other notable events can be seen, such as the visit made due to the sad illness and passing of Obama’s grandmother, registering as a circle over Hawaii.

As a man with strong views on climate-change, the environment and energy, the President-Elect will no doubt be very interested in the carbon estimate of his travels during the campaign as calculated by AMEE.

Dopplr deliberately chose a provocative visualisation here – a scale of the equivalent CO2 yearly output of Hummer SUVs to convey the estimate in concrete terms. Many of us after all would think very hard about driving such a vehicle, perhaps harder than we do about taking a flight.