Googling the Globe

Google is a company with big ideas, and one with the brainpower and money to turn those ideas into reality.

The company's PhotoSphere Initiative seeks to photograph and otherwise document the entire Earth. And we're being asked to help. The Los Angeles Times reports.

Questions...

•What are your reactions to this project? What are its positive and negative effects?

•What limits would you put on these photos to maintain privacy?

•What places in the world would you like to see photos of on Google?

•How might these photos be misused?