I mess around with Google Earth to look at railroads and other landmarks.
Interesting thing I noticed the other day.
If you go to Haiti, you can see all the tent cities and all the rubble after that earthquake.
But they have completely blurred out New Orleans.
I wonder why?
Myopia???
My place is “blurred” out on Google Earth. The image is clear up to my property line on one end. On the other end the neighbor’s property is also “blurred”.
Then the image is clear again further up the road.
I’m guessing it’s a focus issue in my case. I haven’t looked at the NO image.
Google Earth is a great tool. I also use it to “visit” many places.
Ralph
New Orleans has been computer blurred. It used to be there.
It has something to do with the “after” hurricane Katrina.
There’s something they don’t want the world to see.
John Bouck said::O
There's something they don't want the world to see.
New Orleans is not at all blurred on google maps, or on street view, and with street view you can plainly see the neighborhoods where the flooding was worst
Hey John, I use Google Earth as a companion to my Trains magazine. As I read thru the magazine, I look up the town/city or area the article is talking about. It gives me a visual image of what in the heck the article is talking about. It makes the article more than just a bunch of words and a lot more fun.
Ron
No blurring on my Google Earth, either. I can see more detail in their back yards than I can in my own. It could have been a temporary thing where the high-def street level renderings were temporarily offline or something.
Later,
K
My property was not blurred last go round, but is this time. I put foil in my attic and black plastic bags over the windows, works like a charm
On a tv programme, last evening, which I was not watching very attentively, reference was made to two Google Earth camera cars which had been vandalized. I don’t recall in which country this occurred.
The camera car crews insisted that no pictures be taken of their cars. Interesting! They insist on their privacy but have no qualms about taking photographs of other peoples cars and property.
Not sure why, see the darn things all the time around here. Kind of funny when you come up on one.
We got ‘street-viewed’ about six months ago, and when the image popped up on GESV they had neglected to blur our licence plates. I complained using the on-line yadda-yadda connection, and it was blurred within 24 hours.
Doesn’t matter to me anyhow, now, since we’ve changed one of the cars since then, but it was nice to see them react so quickly. Mind you, the director of the Pacific ASEAN area ‘take’ is a friend of mine - not sure if that had anything to do with it…
It’s not ‘who you know’, it’s what you know about who you know.
tac
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That, Sir, is exactly correct.
tac
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