Censored On Google Maps
Since the earliest days of Google Maps a big multi-colored circle has obscured a business office of Noordwijk aan Zee inwards the Netherlands. It isn't the alone location inwards the basis which is hidden on Google's satellite imagery. However no 1 seems to know why Google is together with thus dandy to censor what appears to survive merely a normal Dutch residential neighborhood inwards Noordrwijk aan Zee. No other online map service censors the expanse together with fifty-fifty on Google Maps you lot tin give the axe walk around the neighborhood on Street View.
Back inwards 2006 this Dutch website suggested that the expanse was censored on Google Maps because a liquid fuel pipeline had in 1 lawsuit run through the area. However the pipeline was removed from the expanse a rattling long fourth dimension agone (before Google Maps fifty-fifty started).
Another argue why this censorship inwards the Netherlands is together with thus foreign is because it is rattling unsubtle. Anyone looking at the expanse on Google Maps tin give the axe survive inwards no doubtfulness that Google is trying to enshroud something here. Google is non commonly together with thus unsubtle when hiding locations on Google Maps.
H5N1 slightly to a greater extent than nuanced way to enshroud locations on satellite maps is yesteryear blurring the image. For instance this edifice inwards Greece appears to convey been intentionally blurred out on Google Maps. An fifty-fifty to a greater extent than subtle approach is to role a lower resolution icon for censored locations. This French prison appears inwards lower resolution on Google Maps compared to the expanse around the prison. The depression resolution imagery agency that the casual user may non survive aware of Google's censorship piece at the same fourth dimension successfully obscuring whatever details inwards the prison.
Even to a greater extent than subtle is to role older satellite imagery to enshroud novel constructions or additions to locations. For example, it is believed that an older satellite icon of this Irish prison has been superimposed on rank off of newer satellite imagery on Google Maps. If you lot hold off closely around the boundary wall of the prison theater it does appear that unlike images convey been stitched together here.
Wikipedia maintains a useful listing of Satellite map images amongst missing or unclear data. The listing keeps rails of locations which are censored on the almost pop satellite map services. It has also mapped these locations together with thus that you lot tin give the axe persuasion the results of this censorship for yourself.
