However, images of its roof have been and the entrance to The Lodge is blurred in Google Street View. Images of the prime minister's official residence, The Lodge have not been blurred. It was reported that in the lead-up to the APEC forum in Sydney held in September 2007 certain key locations in images of the city's central business district, where APEC leaders were meeting, might have been intentionally reduced in resolution however, Google has indicated that the change was unrelated to APEC, while the NSW police said that they knew nothing about the change in Google's images. The Australian government has decided that images of sensitive areas are not a risk, due to poor level of detail. Countries engaged with Google Maps ĭuring talks with the Indian government, Google issued a statement saying "Google has been talking and will continue to talk to the Indian government about any security concerns it may have regarding Google Earth." Google agreed to blur images on request of the Indian government. For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out however, these sites are now uncensored. There are cases where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed. For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite imagery. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Maybe Google will try to remedy this disparity so that Google Earth can be equally useful for all citizens of the world.This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. will appear clearer and in greater detail than a village in India. Google Earth’s coverage of areas outside of the United States, particularly non-Western and rural areas, is noticeably inferior. Google Earth Could Cover More Parts of the Earth Imagine a feed of Times Square or Morocco’s Djemaa El-Fna. ![]() Google Earth Could Add Live VideoĪ follow-up to the VR tours of famous sites could be live video feeds of popular locations. Google also might add more locations to its VR offerings right now you can tour places like the Grand Canyon and the Amazon River, but wouldn’t it be amazing to go to the pyramids? Check out polar ice caps? Explore the Great Barrier Reef from underwater?! Google could be dreaming up any number of cool additions. It’s currently available only on the HTC Vive VR headset, so folks want to see it move to more headsets, including Google’s own Daydream. ![]() In November, Google Earth launched a free virtual reality (VR) component that was an immediate success. Google Earth Could Connect with Virtual Reality Mapping on Google Earth could be an improvement over Google Maps in that you’d be using realistic-looking terrain and visual landmarks. One of the biggest rumors is that the new Google Earth could completely take the place of Google Maps, maybe because some functions of the two services overlap. Google is set to announce the news on Tuesday as well. Here are the circulating theories about the revamped version of Google Earth. Google hasn’t disclosed any further information, but speculation has been running wild about what this revitalization might include. Members of the press received invitations to a “first look” at the new Google Earth, which will take place at New York’s Whitney Museum of Art. On Tuesday, Google will preview a forthcoming version of Google Earth that is promised to be a “brand new experience.” It’s sure to be a much-needed overhaul of the service, which has gradually become less popular than Google Maps and which hosts an app that is about to become obsolete.
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