Reuters just released an interesting article that mentions U.S. poultry experts have been using Google Earth to aid in pinpointing the location of various chicken farms, feed mills etc. in the anticipated arival of the bird-flu virus in the U.S. expected at some point this year. Google Earth first received a lot of press after rescue teams in Hurricane Katrina began using the mapping technology to identify neighborhoods etc. Lucky for us, Google purchased Keyhole and gave it to the masses for FREE. "Twenty years ago we had to drive around the countryside and find the chicken farm that reported a disease, but now everything is on a mapping system," Davison told Reuters in a recent interview.
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