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Yeah I've been using this for a while - I downloaded when a friend recommended it and then spent the rest of that week playing around with it. I went on a trip to Argentina 4 years ago, and took a bunch of photos up in the Andes mountains. Not only did I find the exact mountain on google earth, but I was able to position the google earth 'camera' so that it almost exactly matched my own photographs of the place. Totally amazing that they have the whole globe to such detail.
Some places like say New York and other big US cities, it is so Hi-res you can read the road markings and see individual people (well, the tops of their heads).
The imagery isn't real time (that's quite a few years away yet I hope since it will have a definite big-brother privacy aspect to it). But the imagery is updated as it is taken, so somewhere blurry might get replaced with sharp pictures later on.
In the free version you can measure distance along a path and work out how far your route to work is. You can place waypoints for the camera and make little mini videos of google earth flybys....
Seriously cool stuff 
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Anyway it is great tool for usa citizens, they could see moooore
