Google Earth is just getting creepy accurate.
there is a solution to this; take out the satellite.
Brand new Ford Fiestas and VW Rabbits on some pictures, no doubt.
Even the editor new this, since he put quotes around "using google earth".
The biggest threat to freedom via google Earth is local gov't and busybodies snooping for that unauthorized treehouse,pool,deck, or "project" car in the back yard.Or too big a TV antenna"why don't you get cable like everyone else and get rid of that unsightly thing on the roof?"
"Google Earth allows users to zoom in on almost any location in the world to such close range that cars can be recognised. The site even provides latitude and longitude co-ordinates for buildings."
That's sretching it. It's that way for some places but the majority is pretty low res.
I don't know that I buy the "18 month" average. My friend's apartment complex, completed well over two years ago, shows up as a construction site, and I've seen several other locations as well that are well out of date. Also, the resolution isn't the same worldwide - the resolution is high at very low altitudes around major cities, but in rural and foreign areas, the resolution drops significantly. I'd be surprised if Google Earth had any useful information on current U.S. troop sites in Iraq.
Google Earth is just getting creepy accurate.
I'm sorry, but is there any indication that any of the Islamakazis are actually doing this? They seem to be aiming their mortars by eye and setting up IEDs in known locations. They don't need Latitude and Longitude to launch guided missiles from great distance because they do not have any guided missiles.
Google Earth is just the most spectacular example of one of these tools. The truth is that there are lots of sources of useful map and photo info on the web, such as TerraServer, USGS, NASA, etc.
In my experience, Google Earth's images are a minimum of months out of date, and I've seen some that are as much as a couple of years. As a tool to spy out current military positions, it would be somewhat limited.
Also, I haven't heard any stories about the terrorists using guided munitions. They have Rocket Propelled Grenades, which are fired by eye, and mortars, using which they suck at. A GPS position of the target is maybe a bit helpful for targeting a mortar, but it's more a matter of calculation by knowing the range (which, since you're within eyeshot of your target you can figure out without too much trouble); people were accurately using mortars long before GPS was available.
Highly unlikely. The pictures that make up google earth are a minimum of 2 years old and frequently as much as 4 years old. Any data the insurgents are getting from there is intensely post dated, if that's the best they've got we've already won.
They probably also use computer CPU chips designed in the US. And power from power plants that the US got working after the war ended. And those power plants are probably powered by oil that American oil companies pumped from the ground. Guess we'd better shut all that terrorist-enabling stuff down.
but but but like Michael Savage said all the terrorist shave to do now is hook up a GPS and cell phone to Google Earth and they can target amissle locked on to the phone. Now anyone is vulnerable to missile attackby the terrorists. We need to shut down Google and imprison te owners!!!!
Liek Bugs Bunny says "What a Maaarrrrooooooonnn!"
What a crock!
Does that London rag really think "Google Earth" gives a real-time view?
You can buy any pictures you want from several companies. More alarmist bullsh*t.