Brew March 31, 2007 Share Brew Member March 31, 2007 i wonder if it was New Orleans itself that requested the change Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters March 31, 2007 Share stutters GC Alumni March 31, 2007 also, google wants you to start swimming more: http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Boston,+...mp;z=4&om=1 note #9 "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoMamma April 1, 2007 Share YoMamma Member April 1, 2007 Google maps did a similar thing with New York City for years after 9/11. The Twin Towers were still shown until maybe a year ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discom April 1, 2007 Share discom Member April 1, 2007 maybe you could see something confidential in the wreckage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Slaughterâ„¢-TopBrass April 1, 2007 Share Sgt. Slaughterâ„¢-TopBrass Member April 1, 2007 Hehe thats pretty funny shutters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo April 1, 2007 Share anonymo Member April 1, 2007 also, google wants you to start swimming more:http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Boston,+...mp;z=4&om=1 note #9 "Swim across the Atlantic Ocean" ROFL nice find...I especially like how they make you go through France...I guess they figure if you've been swimming in the ocean for months the French locals won't mind the smell... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brew April 1, 2007 Author Share Brew Member April 1, 2007 maybe you could see something confidential in the wreckage now ur talkin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyranus April 3, 2007 Share Tyranus Member April 3, 2007 I didnt think they posted recent sat imagry for security reasons. The stuff from my town is like 10 years old. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Inaccuracies All images are not from the same time. Can be up to 3 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox April 3, 2007 Share appalachian_fox Member April 3, 2007 maybe you could see something confidential in the wreckage It's unlikely. There wasn't much confidential going on (though there was a large recovery operation for as long as a year afterwards, and while not confidential per se it would still be quite unpleasant if visible). Atmospheric conditions and the cost of running the aerial photography at that resolution are probably the primary factors. Remember, Keyhole (An In-Q-Tel funded operation) was only a software company. They did not own satellites themselves, and were not related to the Key Hole satellites (which, iirc, is an outdated satellite series anyway). Besides, images from that time frame are not hard to come across, you just have to look. There were many LIDAR image taken of the site post-collapse, and those were of much higher spatial resolution. Of course, that doesn't preclude the possibility of hiding confidential information. If you spend enough money at Space Imaging/GeoEye or Digital Globe you can have exclusive access to imagery, so I'm sure the government can black out areas if it wants (and indeed, I read some pretty good speculation that they did so in Iraq during the initial invasion a few years back). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaM2 April 3, 2007 Share akaM2 Member April 3, 2007 http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&c...;cid=1114821833 Accused by a Democrat in the U.S. Congress of "airbrushing history," Google said it has now replaced pre-Hurricane Katrina satellite images of the Gulf Coast region with more recent aerial photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters April 3, 2007 Share stutters GC Alumni April 3, 2007 http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/abo...-in-google.html Given that the changes that affected New Orleans happened many months ago, we were a bit surprised by some of these recent comments. Nevertheless, we recognize the increasingly important role that imagery is coming to play in the public discourse, and so we're happy to say that we have been able to expedite the processing of recent (2006) aerial photography for the Gulf Coast area (already in process for an upcoming release) that is equal in resolution to the data it is replacing. That new data was published in Google Earth and Google Maps on Sunday evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brew April 4, 2007 Author Share Brew Member April 4, 2007 justice is served! woot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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