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• Australian family discovers squatters on their property in Croatia using Google Earth - Croatian Times Online News
  The upside to privacy erosion:-)
• MEGA Maps the Physical History of Jordan
  Made by the Getty Conservation Institute, MEGA stands for Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities - Jordan, and it will go live gradually in the coming months. It reminds of Sweden's RAA online database launched in 2006 (http://www.raa.se/cms/fornsok/start.html) but Jordan has a lot more stuff, and MEGA looks like it might be more sophisticated.
• BBC News - Dry weather reveals archaeological 'cropmarks' in fields
  "Hundreds of ancient sites have been discovered by aerial surveys, thanks to a dry start to the summer, English Heritage has said."

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• London Cycle Hire 3D Visualisation in Google Earth | Adrian Short
  Adrian Short uses his API for London's bike hire availability to build a live 3D view in Google Earth. Great example of neogeography in an urban context.

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• FOXNews.com - Spy Agency Amends No-Bid Contract Notice, But Google Still Favored
  US National Geospatial Agency will be getting an easy-to-use Google Earth-based system to share data in a "cry for help" to Google. Bing Maps also wanted to bid on the contract, but the article makes clear the agency thinks only Google can deliver the goods. Bing Maps doesn't have a virtual globe, has little foreign satellite imagery, and no built-in timeline for historical imagery — all of this useful to geospatial analysts.

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