Google Earth and Maps and Terrorist Concerns
Following the lead of Thailand, The Netherlands and South Korea, India’s President APJ Abdul Kalam has expressed concern over the Google Maps and Google Earth satellite mapping systems and the ability for terrorists to use such intricate mapping systems for planning attacks on targets. Although many US government locations have been blanked out by Google Earth and Google Maps (select Sat view and zoom in), such areas in other countries are covered quite well by the free satellite mapping system.
Hindustan Times reports : At a meeting Saturday of top police officials in Hyderabad, Kalam said he worried that “developing countries, which are already in danger of terrorist attacks, have been singularly chosen” for providing high resolution images of their sites.
Google Earth provides images of the presidential Blue House and military bases in South Korea, which is still technically at war with North Korea.
In India, Google Earth exposes detailed satellite photos Parliament House, the Rashtrapati Bhawan and surrounding government offices in New Delhi.
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The comment “Although many US government locations have been blocked by Google Earth” is not supported by example. Why have you made this claim?
I can see the White House just fine in Google Earth. Area 51 too.
Important DC buildings are blanked out, I added the link in the story above.
Does anyone know a site that talks about the solution for this concern/problem?
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