December 27, 2005
Google Earth and Security of the Nation
Srijith discussed the issue of Google Earth and the Indian response to the display of sensitive military installations.He made the point that USA, France and Israel have all blanked out sensitive sites from Google Earth and that it is reasonable for India to request the same.
I don’t think the point is at all about whether other countries have or have not blanked out details from Google Earth’s servers. For a long time now, high resolution satellite images have been available at a price. Google Earth has only put these images into the hands of every internet user for free. If our real fear is anti-national elements then it would be reasonable to expect that these anti-nationals have enough wherewithal to pay for high resolution images that are likely to be of far better quality than that being provided by Google Earth.
Srijith said,
December 30, 2005 at 10:54 pm
Thanks for linking to my post. As I have mentioned in my post, not all anti-national elements have similar buying powers and may not be able to get the data required at the resolution that gives them much power. Google Earth changes that.
Jamarion said,
November 28, 2006 at 11:34 pm
Hi All Experts,
Does anyone use google earth images as ground image planes for use in aerial scenes. I know how to stitch them together but are there any tools or tricks to make sure that the images are at the same height, angle and such to make sure they stitch well. I know in the pro version you can get bigger images but im not going to pay for the pro version when i could stitch multiple images together…
nomly said,
January 11, 2009 at 5:20 pm
thanks for the article,its great