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.
Redaction Back to the Fore
May 18th, 2007 · No Comments
Categories: Data · External News
Tags: censorship, redaction
Just Say N.O.
March 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Official Google Earth Response
Read the response posted about this issue at the Official Google Blog.
Update from Google Earth Blog
Frank Taylor informs the Google Earth community on an immediate update to the imagery database, which now includes more recent post-Katrina images over New Orleans. He also advises to check back for any additional updates as they […]
Categories: Data
Tags: censorship, debate, google earth, redaction
Got Metadata?
March 28th, 2007 · No Comments
Nikolas Schiller makes an interesting observation on the redactions present between archived aerial orthophotography metadata, distributed by the USGS, between the year 2002 and 2005 distributions. Although this is a practice that I don’t find surprising, as I’ve observed this since September 11th as well, I do have a general opinion on the paranoias associated.
I’ve […]
Categories: Data
Tags: metadata, personal rants, redaction