Incredible to think the images on GE are so up-to-date as to show the existing positions of things such at tents and land rovers. It seems irresponsible of Google to publish such sensitive information. In Iraq we casual users could probably live with some older, less specific data.
Another worrying thing is the planning of terrorist attacks in the west, where Google and others pride themselves on having accurate, high resolution and current information available to ALL. This will no doubt be used as an argument by some not to make accurate public map data freely available. But will that prevent terrorism? I seriously doubt it. Peter Strømberg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Kearney Sent: 13 January 2007 16:05 To: [email protected] Subject: [Geowanking] Fw: [LINK] "Terrorists use Google maps to hit UKtroops'" >From: "Jochen L. Leidner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This may be of interest to list subscribers: > > The Daily Telegraph reports today that Iraqi militants are using open > source IT to plan attacks: > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/13/wgoogle13.xm l > > However, I still believe the benefit of easily accessible geospatial > data outweights the dangers, which is also held by an NGA-commissioned report: > http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG142/index.html _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
