Friday, 13 April 2007

List Of Places Blurred Out On Google Maps

Google Maps or Google Earth contains digital images of the earth; a number of sensitive locations are digitally obscured or blurred. Many other areas in Google Earth have been blurred by governments keen to stop people seeing sensitive sites. This is in contrast to portions of Google Maps where only low resolution photographs are available, or where atmospheric or photographic conditions resulted in reduced resolution or clarity.

Here's an example. This is a satellite picture of the Royal Palace here in the Netherlands.



Wikipedia has a list of more places blurred out on Google Maps.

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