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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GOOGLEMAPS? |
| Date: |
10/23/2005 09:20:01 AM |
| From: |
Bill Thoen |
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On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:07:44AM +0530, Krishan Sharma wrote:
> ... There's lot of security questions raised regarding Google Images here
> in India? as why to White House is blanked out and not the aircraft
> Carrier of India and many secret defence places are clearly shown,
> there's lot hue and cry to stop this site where as the GIS community in
> total will be immensely get benefited? what the international gis
> community thinks about this issue?
I think the military concerns of the world are just going to have to deal
with the eyes of the common people of the world on them. Even blanking out
"secure" locations simply draws attention to them. I bet that Google image
that has the White House and the US Senate building in it now gets a lot
more hits than the secret US Navy yard just north of Tonapah, Nevada. (Can't
find it, you say? See how good they hid it?)
Military commanders for years have had to deal with satellite surveillance
at much higher resolutions and higher frequency of updates from other
country's intelligence agencies. They've adapted by now. Images from Google
don't seem to me to be such a threat to anyone's national security.
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