A list of places digitally obscured or blurred was posted to Wikipedia on
Thursday.
After the release there are many updates and descriptions added to the list.
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_blurred_out_on_Google_Maps
It was reported that Google is not the organization behind the censorship,
because the maps are from several sources (TeleAtlas, NAVTEQ, TerraMetrics,
NASA etc.).
I agree because it appears that there are several ways how to obscure places,
with clouds, pixelization or even with black boxes.
If Google wants to hide the places why they don't use one common technique.
Goverments have different reasons to use clouds or black boxes when hiding places. The "Hybrid" view is worth of checking.
The document states that the article "is being considered for deletion in accordance
with Wikipedia's deletion policy".
The list is not coverage, absolutely not.
- Juha-Matti
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