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• There is stuff up there (Score:1)

  by nmueller (1273) on 2005.04.05 13:00 (#39422)

  I can't speak for the Capital offices, but the old executive offices (either side of the White House) are covered in fancy communications hardware. Commercial spy satellites are licensed by the NOAA. I wouldn't be surprised if the pixelating was done before 9/11 by whichever company took the pics.

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  • Re:There is stuff up there (Score:2)

    by ziggy (25)

    No doubt that this data is scrubbed before it is cleared for civilian use. Best as I can tell, it's ~1m/pixel at the highest resolution, which is plenty good to identify one building from another, but not so good that you can read the newspapers littering the street to see when the photos were taken. (Military satellites supposedly has this capability, oh, 20 years ago.)

    I'm not pointing the finger at Google for anything (aside from the watermarking, which has their fingerprints all over it; besides, tha
    • Re:There is stuff up there (Score:1)

      by Whammo (2555)

      No doubt that this data is scrubbed before it is cleared for civilian use.

      That implies the source is the U.S. government. While American sources might artificially limit the resolution, the French have been selling commercial satellite imagery for years, and have no such scruples.

      I'm not pointing the finger at Google for anything (aside from the watermarking, which has their fingerprints all over it; besides, that's cool and tastefully done).

      Interesting thing about the watermarking. The copyrigh