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Here's the most interesting Google related geonews I found for January so far. Google significantly updated Google Sky (a little more on the GEB), with many new layers and associated data. Still from the Official Google blog, some news an discussion about Google Transit. Not to miss is the impressive comparison of a real flight and a Google Earth flight in the Swiss Alps. Amongst the other GE news, there's the WarViews animated conflict geodata (via OE) and surface-to-air missile sites and range dataset for GE. The 3D Route Builder which uses GE which reached version 1.0. Here's a 3D-mouse working with GE. And finally, a few navigation shortcuts for Google Earth 4. See also the numerous related stories below.

Spatial Sustain discuss a map of U.S. casualties related to the Irak war. From the blog: "News that the U.S. Iraq death toll reached 4,000, was accompanied by maps from icasualties.org. The Iraq Coalition Casualty Count analyzes military casualties, with a mapping view for a number of key statistics that include wounded and killed by home county, by city, by state, by home base. There are also maps for fatalities by province in Iraq."