A while ago I discovered "Keyhole", an unbeliveably cool piece of mapping software that lets you zoom around the planet and look at very detailed satelite maps of the earth's surface, along with basic political and road outlines, and in some cases topography. Keyhole was the first stage in what is truely the ultimate earth resource, a piece of truely revolutionary technology.

Anyway, I'm sitting here right now, liveblogging at the Googleplex listening to founder Sergey Brinn annouce the next version of Keyhole. The product will be called "Google Earth" and it's essentially the same thing, but with massively upgraded quality. Sergey just flew us throught the grand canyon with full 3D topography, and then to Santigago Chile with the same quality that was previously only available for small parts of the US. Amazing. Scheduled to launch in a "few weeks". You heard it here first!

ED NOTE: Never mind a "few weeks". I just fired up Typekey and things are incredible. If you like geography and have $29.95 to shell out, I hightly recommend it.