The San Francisco Chronicle released an article this morning on imagery redaction practices between web mapping applications, and the discussions that have been directly related. A while back, Nikolas Schiller and I discussed discoveries of metadata and imagery redactions present in the USGS database of aerial imagery.
The last comment in the SFGate piece made by Massachusetts’ Official, Christian Jacqz, is interesting to me in regards to his opinion that discussions pertaining to this practice, “…doesn’t strike us as a useful thing to do.” If we’re not to discuss the practice and how it’s being implemented - from both a user and/or a tax-paying citizen’s point of view — then what would Mr. Jacqz deem appropriate might I ask?
It seems to me that we still do very much live in a society where we are free to speak our minds and discuss what might be better for ourselves moving forward. Mistakes can be made in government, afterall, and as is evidenced by much of what we’ve seen lately in the very sporadic media coverage and through the hearings that any citizen with cable access can watch via CSPAN.
Care to “redact” your latest comment, Mr. Jacqz? There is chance that it could be taken the “wrong way” by some of us who only wish to see the greatest good come of it all — and whatever that greater good may actually be.
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