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| GIS Development Weekly |
10th
March 2008 VOL 4 Issue 9 |
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| Image of the Week |
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| Audiocast |
 Speech
Mr. K K Singh, CMD, Rolta India delivering the Guest Address at inauguration of Map India 2008.
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| Editorial |
(won't) show you mine, but...
A few weeks before last year's APEC summit, much of the Sydney CBD as it appeared on Google Maps was fuzzed out. Google denied the quality of the images was downgraded because of security concerns for the 21 visiting world leaders, saying instead it was a "commercial issue" with a supplier. The Google spokesman said any suggestion the issue had anything to do with APEC was "an interesting conspiracy theory, but it was incorrect" reports Asher Moses. Last week the US Defense Department said it is forbidding Google from filming and depicting in detail its military bases, after officials found precise imagery of a Texas base on the Google Maps website. I had reported earlier that the Camp David area has been fuzzed out in Google's Earth/Maps.
The list of urgent and many a times valid requests to Google for fuzzing out stratigic locations would be long. But, since the requests are from the 'lesser' nations of the world, they have apparently fallen on deaf ears, eg. the release of updated imagery over Dubai has impacted the planned sale of land and affected real estate costs; the high resolution images covering high security prisons in and around Mumbai is still not done... and these are not defense related.
 Dr.
Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net |
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