{"id":221,"date":"2005-07-13T10:27:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/13\/google-maps-censored\/"},"modified":"2005-07-13T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T14:29:14","slug":"google-maps-censored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/13\/google-maps-censored\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps censored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\">Google Maps<\/a> added a feature where you could seamlessly switch to a satellite view of the map that you&#8217;re looking at. Looking at my old digs in Foggy Bottom, I noticed that there were several intentionally obscured areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=20007&#038;ll=38.897352,-77.036734&#038;spn=0.004301,0.005779&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\">White House, Old Executive Bldg, Treasury Dept.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=20007&#038;ll=38.890078,-77.008774&#038;spn=0.008602,0.011558&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\">Capitol Hill<\/a> &#8211; Capitol Bldg, Senate office bldgs, but not Library of Congress or Supreme Court. They used the Japanese vaj method of obscurity here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=20007&#038;ll=38.871539,-77.054822&#038;spn=0.008602,0.011558&#038;t=k&#038;hl=en\">Pentagon<\/a> was strangely left unadulterated. Guess they don&#8217;t keep their SAM launchers on the roof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious if there are examples of this in other cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps added a feature where you could seamlessly switch to a satellite view of the map that you&#8217;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 &#8211; Capitol Bldg, Senate office bldgs, but not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}