Imagery And Analysis

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Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

Interesting read mate.

By far the worst country for censorship is US where increasingly government buildings... even non-military ones, are often censored. Presumably this is some bureaucratic idiot who has never bought an ordinance survey map.

The thing I don't get is why censor most of these places??? Would is prevent a terrorist attack? - no way. Does Google Earth help terrorists? - only about the same as a map and even censored images tend to show you enough detail for any conceivable terrorist purpose.

I think censorship is stupid and shows how un-free the free world is becoming.

Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

25.107639°, 121.536584° and scrol through the historic data. This censorship is pathetic really, what on earth is the motive???

SOC · Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:17 am Post subject:

That's amusing. I wonder if that place is nuke-affiliated...
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Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

Presumably that's a US site. Really it beats me what that censorship is supposed to prevent.

raj47 · Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Posts: 200 : Location: india Items

Interesting find.
The building on the North West comes and goes on 23 Dec 2005.
Hence the dates of imageries are also incorrect.
The building on the South East has been marked on wikimapia as Huaxing Middle School.
Can Google stop Chinese or any other country satellites or aircrafts from taking images?
Censorship by Google is really foolish.

Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

There's another sort of censorship in Taiwan, where newer images have 'holes' cut ion them around military areas. Older images still show through. eg. 24.214759°, 120.598578° and the airbase SE, plus ammo dump behind etc.

SOC · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:49 am Post subject:

Unfortunately for them their older imagery was still clear enough for me to figure out that they were trying to "censor" a HAWK missile battery. This is beginning to border on the ridiculous and may deserve a special post to point out and capture images of all of these fun places before they erase them all and ban Google in Taiwan.
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Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

gets better, why on earth censor 24.140670°, 120.574430° - my bet is the person who does the censoring doesn't know what they are looking at half the time. US is worse too.

SOC · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:54 am Post subject:

Those are secret superwide missile silos built with assistance from NIKE, not POL tanks. Or at least that's the angle I'm going to take when I destroy their censorship practices...
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raj47 · Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Posts: 200 : Location: india Items

There is a very clear picture on Panoramio of these secret superwide missile silos built with assistance from NIKE (I too want to take that angle). The caption says it is some kind of water purification plant. The comment says they are China Oil POL tanks. The image is not censored on Panoramio. Hilarious indeed.

Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

Maybe they outsourced the censoring to India and gave them a script that reads:

"censor any military infrastructure or equipment in this list:

Air bases

Embassies and related US Gov property

Tanks"

SOC · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:02 pm Post subject:

Tanks! Dude, I laughed at that one over here. Who ever would have thought that Google Earth would be a source of any sort of humorous content NOT involving nude beaches?
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SOC · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:34 am Post subject:

Alright, lets use this thread as an index. If you find someplace that has been censored, throw the coordinates in here. When I get enough hilarious examples I'll list every one of them on the site.
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RoAF · Joined: 29 Sep 2007 Posts: 114 : Items

I didn't get the part with NIKE - what do you guys mean?

Tours- St Symphorien AB in France
47.430517 0.719943
The military side is pixelated, but going trough historical imagery one can find an uncensored snapshot.
For God's sake, it's just a training facility with Alpha Jets
On the other hand, Saint-Dizier AB, where nuclear delivery Mirage 2000 N and more recently Rafales are based, is available in reasonable resolution.

Leeuwarden, Netherlands
53.223964 5.752564
Even though the base is pixelated, there are Panoramio pictures placed inside...
And of course sites such as Scramble.nl have extensive information on the base layout and advantageous spotting places:
http://www.scramble.nl/airports/index.html
Plus there is http://maps.live.com/ where the base can be seen in good resolution overhead imagery.

SOC · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:51 am Post subject:

NIKE, as in the shoe manufacturer!
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Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

lol, the Nike thing is re Taiwan. They used to use Nike SAMs so we're guessing that Nike sites became TK sites.

On to obserd censoring. White Plains local airport in USA, not military at all.
41.066679°,-73.705592° and another at 40.791073°, -73.099998°

Nearby 40.911095°, -73.778142° - local government offices I suspect. Clearly the censoring seems to be dependant on the imagery supplier.

Back in Taiwan, a TOP SECRET park... , 25.081641°, 121.536447°

raj47 · Joined: 06 Dec 2008 Posts: 200 : Location: india Items

Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

Planeman · Joined: 20 Sep 2008 Posts: 441 : Items

haha about halfway down this page http://www.shandinglu.org/blog/around-daliao