I Found Myself - Google Maps - Street View
09-07-08, 09:28 AM
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Bike ≠ Car ≠ Ped.
Google still doesn't have Street View in DC as far as I can tell. They also used to have pixelated versions of the Capitol and other government buildings (I guess to try to reduce the ability of terrorists to make attack plans), but those are full resolution now (although the bird's eye view at maps.live.com is all pixelly).
I think it's fun, and hardly worth worrying about. So they can see some of us fixing our stairs -- I can see people doing the same thing if I go for a walk. My sister was showing my parents and I around her neighborhood in Germany via Google Earth, and that was way cool.
I think it's fun, and hardly worth worrying about. So they can see some of us fixing our stairs -- I can see people doing the same thing if I go for a walk. My sister was showing my parents and I around her neighborhood in Germany via Google Earth, and that was way cool.
09-07-08, 10:20 AM
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Google employees a fleet of vehicles that do nothing but drive around taking pictures. Each vehicle is equipped with a specialized camera rig which takes the photos. So basically only that which can bee seen from the street is captured.
During the cold war the government littered the earths orbit with a bunch of satellites. This was used to keep track of its slaves, the public. This was done under the guise of "Star Wars" in order to protect the US from nuclear attack, this is the party line we were given and
That must be some seriously good **** you're smoking
Operation Mockingbird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird
I fail to see how this is even tangentially related to satellite imagery. And FYI, systems like GeoEye, which was just launched yesterday, rival or even surpass the capabilities of goverment systems.
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09-07-08, 10:35 AM
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for anyone creeped out by having your house on google maps, they will erase it for you, but it takes a few weeks. we requested ours be omitted. now you go down our srteet but when you get to our house it's just a black space with the words, "This image no longer available" superimposed.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
09-07-08, 09:53 PM
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for anyone creeped out by having your house on google maps, they will erase it for you, but it takes a few weeks. we requested ours be omitted. now you go down our srteet but when you get to our house it's just a black space with the words, "This image no longer available" superimposed.
09-08-08, 01:18 AM
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I like chrome.
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