Google wins war of the worlds

We’ve been hearing that the beta versions of Google Earth and MSN’s Virtual Earth, which feature aerial photos of just about every place on our beloved planet, are all the rage amongst land surveyors (and for all we know, stalkers). But what to write about them? Thanks to Gawker, we found our angle, when that blog helpfully pointed out that in the MSN product, the World Trade Center still lives. (See photo above, where, directly to the right of the blue box containing the numeral one, you can see the square footprint of the tower that included the huge antenna in the center of its roof.