"Interestingly, David Jones (creator of GTA), himself, was working on something similar to this a few years ago.  Check out this video... the project had SO much potential, but the company went belly up after APB was released... sigh."

"Strange, I came to the opposite conclusion -- that the planet is enormous, and dwarfs any make-believe realm in any game, ever.  At best, Middle Earth is about half the size of Georgia. And yes, there is a keen military interest in this…"

"Thanks for the details...  Chris already posted it here: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/new-uav-game-for-google-earth and we had some initial impression comments.  "