Monday, February 05, 2007

Google Earth agrees to blur images

From my favourite Indian e-News, AlooTechie:
Google Earth agrees to blur images of sensitive establishments
When: 2/4/2007 10:24:24 PM
By Rajesh Barnwal

Google Earth has agreed to distort building plans of sensitive Indian establishments by adding structures where none existed or masking certain aspects of a facility. This is to address India’s concerns that images of sensitive military and scientific establishments available on the Web could either allow unauthorised snooping or become a ready reckoner for terrorists.

According to Economic Times, the government list of sensitive sites would be accepted by Google Earth and images of these locations will not be of more than 25-50 metre resolution. This is believed to be better than an outright blackout as blacking out key installations would only attract attention to their locations.

I bet there are some funny user generated images of what a "greyed" out image might look like. Maybe a greyed out target symbol?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think it is an apt decision.
Regards
Gis@SBL
http://www.sblgis.com/photogrammetry_services.aspx

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