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Lots of Eyes Discover New Things

September 19, 2005 / stormy / 0 Comments

Sharing data allows lots of people to help discover and invent new things.  For example, this guy found Roman ruins by examining satellite photos of land near his home.  The photos were made available by Google Earth.  Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins.

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