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Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1809
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 1:51 am: |     |
quote:Google is in talks with the Indian government over high-resolution images of the country shown on its Google Earth service.
Indian defence officials raised security concerns last year with the internet search engine about the satellite imaging program's level of detail at sensitive locations.
A Times of India report on Sunday said Google has agreed to blur or distort the installations instead of blacking them out so as not to draw attention to their locations. However, a report in Monday's issue of Computerworld quotes a spokeswoman for Google India as saying no agreement has yet been reached.
India wants Google Earth maps blurred
This is total garbage. And India isn't the only country that has requested this. Again the terrorist thing is brought up. How many times are we going to use terrorism as an excuse? The earth belongs to humanity. It is quite sad when we are excluded from seeing pics that are freely available. If these countries don't want pics made available, then they should refrain from taking pics themselves. Is my personal right to privacy any less than theirs? Blur out my house too, and don't take any pics ever again. Maybe we should hire China to take out a few surveillance satellites? The arrogance here is unbelievable!
And if Google really caves to this crap......what ever happened to free enterprise? I suspect that the world might be a safer place if all military installations were published in minute detail all over the world.
The world is seemingly more Orwellian every day.
Scott
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Jerrers
bear cub
Username: Jerrers
Post Number: 24
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 07, 2007 - 5:14 am: | |
While it's changed now, the first time I used GE I found that the roof of the White House was censored, and the Capitol was blurred. Come to think of it, how good is the detail in the semi-mythical Area 51?
And whatever happened to the noble art of camouflage anyway? |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1832
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 1:24 am: | |
And they shouldn't be IMO. If you have a private satellite that takes pics, the info should be freely available, should said satellite owner wish to sell the info. If Google freely chooses to offer or not offer the info, that is up to them, but to be pressured into not offering it......no way!
Scott
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Pine
flint knapper
Username: Pine
Post Number: 1336
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 6:06 am: | |
How to tell where Israeli military installations are on a map? Look for roads seemingly leading to nowhere. But even a decade ago satellite pics were available at bookstores.
Cohen's Law: 'Unless you fail at more than 10% of the things you try, you aren't trying enough things.' |
Scott
flint knapper
Username: Scott
Post Number: 1894
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 6:11 pm: | |
It appears that google is in trouble again for using pre-Katrina maps of New Orleans.
quote:NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Google's replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a "great injustice" to the storm's victims, a congressional subcommittee said.
Google uses pre-Katrina maps
Not sure how it does an "injustice" but it isn't very accurate or up to date. I am more interested in who told them to change the maps, if anyone.
I checked Dimona Pine - no roads, yet detailed maps "are" available at www.globalsecurity.org
Scott
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Don
hunter
Username: Don
Post Number: 446
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 01, 2007 - 9:46 pm: | |
My beef with google earth is the random lack of detail.
I'm interested in the Kostenki - Borshevo area on the Don River in Russia, 40 km south of Voronezh.
The southern limit of the Kostenki (Lion Camp) area at Borshevo has very good detail.
Kostenki and the central area of the series of archaeological sites have abysmal detail, and it has been that way since I first started using google earth. The dates for the photography are recent, too.
Similarly, the Iron Gates area of the Danube has fuzzy photos.
Kostenki is at 51 deg 23 min north, 39 deg 03 min E.
Borshevo is at 51 deg 20 min 48 sec north, 39 deg 07 east.
I went looking for commercial aerial photos, but the cost is astronomical, with no guarantee of quality.
Some bushwalking areas near my home in Oz have superb quality, others are pathetic.
Don
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