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To: Carry_Okie

Google Earth, SPOT and the evening weather news must drive you crazy then.


15 posted on 08/01/2014 3:22:56 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "Our Emperor may have no clothes, but doesn't he have a wonderful tan" - MSM)
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To: BwanaNdege
Google Earth, SPOT and the evening weather news must drive you crazy then.

Yup. So do public roads in some respects.

When I photograph a person in public, I could get sued if I published it without permission. They own the reflected light off of them.

When I spend years conditioning my property such that the reflected light off of it is a unique product, the public can not only photograph it at will and publish the content they can harass me if it does not please them. When the condition of the land becomes "public viewshed" the public has a call on what you do with every inch of my land. When they can spy on me and decide what overlapping and contradictory environmental regulations I might be violating and therefore how much I owe in the way of fines it can become a blackmail game.

Satellite photos are very useful tools to me in communicating what we have done on our property. Yet I would rather have to pay a fee for the service and be able to own the content than what Google is doing. I use it, particularly because I am not charging for my written work, but that work is done with the objective of privatizing environmental management and most of regulatory government with it, completely.

So, I guess you could say I have my reasons.

24 posted on 08/01/2014 6:46:03 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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