Google Maps censored
Google Maps added a feature where you could seamlessly switch to a satellite view of the map that you’re looking at. Looking at my old digs in Foggy Bottom, I noticed that there were several intentionally obscured areas:
- White House, Old Executive Bldg, Treasury Dept.
- Capitol Hill – Capitol Bldg, Senate office bldgs, but not Library of Congress or Supreme Court. They used the Japanese vaj method of obscurity here.
- Pentagon was strangely left unadulterated. Guess they don’t keep their SAM launchers on the roof.
I’m curious if there are examples of this in other cities.
Electro Rock Said,
July 13, 2005 @ 12:43 pm
While in DC a few weeks ago for a grant meeting I received a yahoo.com map from the organizers for the local area. We were only a few blocks from the capitol building. The map included detail save for the surrounding blocks of the capitol and other government buildings. The missing detail was shaded and labeled “information not available.” I found this a great meatphor for the current administration, both in decision making and in public relations. I followed their policy-based model and made a choice about where to find food even without any information, simply the belief that there was food out there somewhere.
(I ended up back at the hotel eating at the sports bar…go figure.)
bluegrass girl Said,
July 13, 2005 @ 1:17 pm
The uranium enrichment plan near my home town (and source of our outrageous cancer rates) is fuzzed out.
danger Said,
July 13, 2005 @ 4:04 pm
probably from the radiation.
bluegrass girl Said,
July 15, 2005 @ 10:47 am
Electro Rock, your anecdote reads just like a New Yorker ‘Talk of the Town’ piece (in shortened form, of course). Too bad they don’t take submissions.