Google Earth and Law Enforcement

More GE news! There is an interesting article on CNET about how law enforcement is using Google Earth in some interesting ways. The images are not timely enough for direct law enforcement, but police have used it to check the terrain around suspected marijuana fields and counties are using it to check for house expansions completed without a permit. This is one way to know when something is a truly transformational technology - people wind up using it in ways that no one could have predicted.