SF Chronicle: Google Maps and Earth
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by GD
Journalist Verne Kopytoff of the San Francisco Chronicle had two articles related to Google Maps and Earth in the March 30, 2009, issue.
In Google Carves Out Its Corner, Kopytoff looks closely at Google Maps and Earth and talks with John Hanke, formerly of satellite-mapping service Keyhole.
A related piece, Mappers Give Critical Eye to Aerial Images, discusses some of the issues that Google’s mapping team faces. What appears on your screen as a single satellite image is a compilation of many images taken at different times. And there are concerns about giving too much detail: “In some cases, Google is asked by government officials to blur aerial images of sensitive buildings … for security reasons.”
