Posted on 06/12/2006 8:52:28 PM PDT by mastercylinder
Photos of IDF bases and top secret IAF facilities have recently become available to the public courtesy of Google’s satellite imagery service, Google Earth .
Google Earth, launched a year ago, initially featured low-resolution photos of Israel. Lately, however, the company improved the resolution of those satellite images, and last Friday they succeeded in matching the images’ standards to those of all other Google photos.
This allows users to see detailed aerial photos of IAF bases and the top-secret power station located near the southern city of Ashkelon.
The current resolution is two meters per pixel and it allows for a detailed view of the ground.
Israeli internet users demanded better resolution
For security reasons and in accordance with an agreement Israeli has with US-based companies that provide satellite imagery, images of Israel with resolution higher than 2 meters per pixel are barred from sale.
In addition, in 1996 Congress approved a law stating that US commercial companies must apply for a special permit before selling such high-resolution images of Israel.
In other words, if up until now Google had treated Israel differently, now it is treated with the same standards Google applies to other countries. However, Google does not feature images of the nuclear facility in the Negev desert.
Immediately following the launch of Google Earth last year, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other world leaders complained that this service was a risk to their nations’ security.
Nevertheless, in the past several months, Israeli internet users demanded that Google improve the resolution of the Israeli images.
There have been a lot of image updates this last week, although not so much in the U.S. Australia for instance got a lot of new hi-res. Also there is a new client 4.0 just released in beta today with an improved interface, and it is finally available on Linux.
I bet if China asked Google to accomodate their wishes on something like this, it would take them about 20 seconds to pull those images off the web.
["There have been a lot of image updates this last week..."]
Try looking at Diego Garcia and tell me what you think.
You mean Southeast of Denver, Colorado?
Most probably, not.
Self-hating leftie idiots from Shalom Ahshav and all sorts of other liberal, Mohammedan arse-licking, peacenik, nominally Jewish schmucks...
No, my good friend, it's out in the the Indian Ocean.
I would point out the rather obvious fact that Google purchases their image data from widely used commercial sources for such images that anyone can purchase. It isn't like Google has spyplanes or satellites mapping the globe.
Alright I found it. It seems to have some cloudy imagery from DigitalGlobe at present. I would guess the resolution is one meter or so. But I still don't get your point.
Unfortunately, you're right. If it was otherwise, the Iraqi Ozark Reactor solution could be on the cards, and it would make the things much easier.
Damn Clinton, the Iraqis have a reactor in Arkansas!
(Me thinks you ment Osirak...)
Try this guide. You basically go north of Baghdad past the titty bend in the river, off to the right past the small town and his is the small house on the east before the big road to the west.
Great picture here.
Here is a Google Earth link.
Run Google Earth first, then click here:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=438641
maimed and killed 'im alrighty
Damn me! That exactly what I ment... :-))
So Google is taking on the Zionists!
What a fight for the Chicom lovers.
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