This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. The government of Malaysia has stated that it will not ask Google to censor sensitive areas because that would identify the locations it deemed to be sensitive. However, images of its roof have been and the entrance to The Lodge is blurred in Google Street View. Images of the prime minister's official residence, The Lodge have not been blurred. It was reported that in the lead-up to the APEC forum in Sydney held in September 2007 certain key locations in images of the city's central business district, where APEC leaders were meeting, might have been intentionally reduced in resolution however, Google has indicated that the change was unrelated to APEC, while the NSW police said that they knew nothing about the change in Google's images. The Australian government has decided that images of sensitive areas are not a risk, due to poor level of detail. Countries engaged with Google Maps ĭuring talks with the Indian government, Google issued a statement saying "Google has been talking and will continue to talk to the Indian government about any security concerns it may have regarding Google Earth." Google agreed to blur images on request of the Indian government.
For example, when Google Maps and Google Earth were launched, images of the White House and United States Capitol were blurred out however, these sites are now uncensored. There are cases where the censorship of certain sites was subsequently removed. For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite imagery. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. That one picture was then blended with others for the final composite image in Google Earth, which was why it appeared as if the airplane was found in the ocean.This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. The aircraft was photographed above the water with its shadow down below. Only one of the individual images showed the airplane, which was in flight. It's unclear which specific pictures were put together for the final composite image that appeared on Google Earth, but it likely consisted of the multiple photographs shot in October 2015.Īll of the original, individual satellite pictures that made up the composite image were available in the Google Earth app with the "Show historical imagery" feature.
The area surrounding the coordinates mentioned above had been previously captured once in June 2004, once in February 2005, once in January 2015, six times in October 2015, once in December 2015, once in April 2016, and once in September 2017. To see the same composite image in Google Maps, simply click here or copy and paste these coordinates into the maps app or Google Earth: 22.6783604,-73.8282887.
However, the picture was simply a composite of multiple satellite photographs that appeared to have been captured in 2015.Ī Google Earth Help article once noted that some of the satellite images found in the app can be "a mosaic of multiple satellite or aerial photos taken over days or months." It was true that the satellite image of the airplane and the ocean really did come from Google Earth.