When an Indian state government wanted to acquire the land of farmers for building a Special Economic Zone, the farmers used satellite pictures from Google Earth to prove their land is fertile.
CNN IBN reports that "initially state authorities claimed that only a small portion of the earmarked land is fertile and that some parts of it is submerged by salty creek water, meaning lower compensation for the farmers."
The farmers then downloaded satellite pictures of their land from Google Earth which clearly crop areas and helped farmers back their claims for higher compensation.
Google Earth aid for Maha farmers | IBN Live Video Report
Reader Comments
That's cool, but Google Earth's pictures are not always up to date.
Written on 10/10/06 10:28 PM
Bravo
Written on 11/10/06 9:21 AM
I don't understand - this is your professional blog, you make money off of it, and yet you somehow manage to avoid spell-checking or grammar-checking the 3 posts you make any given day. I mean, I understand the whole cache of blogs being quick updates with occasionally "unchecked" errors which make them seem down-to-earth, etc., but this is not a personal blog, you make a very small number of posts, and yet there are ALWAYS mistakes (I've been reading for quite a while). Please consider spell-checking and grammar-checking in the future, if not for personal pride in your work, then at least for your readers who probably expect a little more professionalism.
Written on 11/10/06 12:30 PM
Dear Anon - Thanks for your valuable input. You are probably right in saying that I should be doing more spell checks before posting things online.
If there are more suggestions, please let me know. You can even send me a direct email.
Written on 11/10/06 12:33 PM
And yet I love your blog and keep coming back. Sigh. :D
No other suggestions, and this is barely a suggestion anyway, I wouldn't mention it unless I enjoyed your blog so much. Congrats on the Microsoft award!
-same anon user as above
Written on 11/10/06 12:44 PM
Amit,
I agree with Anon. Most of your posts have errors in them. It will be nice if you run a spell check and also correct grammatical errors before you post your articles, which are informative and interesting to read otherwise.
Have you considered outsourcing the editing work(spell and grammar checks among others or even documentation)of your posts? I could be of help. :)
Andy
Written on 11/10/06 12:54 PM
Amazing story. A couple of the places visible on that video, located in Google maps: Pen Taluka fertile lands. Opening the KML link below the map, you go to Google Earth to see those sites.
Written on 18/10/06 7:35 PM