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Could the journalist not have spoken with someone at Google prior to publication of this article? It's just irresponsible journalism that they clearly did not.

Irresponsible journalism? No such thing!

The telegraph admits it was a false alarm:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/g...

Aww. :( I knew it wasn't going to be real, but I still wanted to believe for just a few hours before it was debunked.

You can write a book or a game based on this, and stick a reference to this google maps thingie as part of the plot. That would be slick.

I came to post this very same thing.