Crisis in Darfur

Google Earth hopes to raise awareness of the atrocities in Darfur by installing a new layer that allows you to zoom in on the individual villages.

In other news, here's Google's explanation on why they chose to use old imagery of New Orleans in its post-Katrina maps.

Editorial note: Whoa! You've found a super-old post here on BuzzFeed, from an earlier era of the site. It doesn't really represent where we are anymore, and may in fact be totally broken, but we're leaving it up as a part of our early history.

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