On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Switching to satellite view shows everything, though. Everything except for names or any other Google provided features. You can't hide a road from space but you can fail to identify it. > There are apparently a lot of countries that do not have maps of roads. > Cyprus, Vietnam, Iceland, Pakistan and many Caribbean islands as further > examples. Pakistan has full maps but the others you mentioned don't. At least not according to Google. But again, Israel and Georgia are both fully documented on Yahoo. > Google will also obscure or remove some vital maps and images if requested > by the host country. (VP's residence here in the US for example) On a case by case and specific location basis only. Asking them to blank out DC would result in Google laughing. Here is one reason Israel might want to obscure such things: Fatah using > google earth to target rockets. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/oct/25/inside.gaza Might want to but if you go to Google and view an Israeli city you can get within 3 levels of the top before your blocked. I can see each house and street, but no names on them. Does the lack of names protect Sedrot from being shot at all the time? The answer is a resounding no. And while the story of terrorists using Google to aim their weapons has nice shock value, the truth is that Google is rather useless in this regard. They can see a picture of where they want the rockets to hit but not the result, not the 'real' distance, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265671 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
