Declan Butler has written a couple of good write ups of Google Earth and Digital Globes in Nature this month. The online news version kindly mentions this blog although sadly gets the URL wrong - its a good article though - the printed version of Nature goes into more depth and is well worth a read.
You can read the article here
Google Earth/Digi Urban in Nature
Andy
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