[Novalug] [OT] Google takes heat for using pre-Katrina imagery

b b linux_author@yahoo.com
Sat Mar 31 21:10:01 EDT 2007


- note that any imagery of coastal Mississippi and
Alabama will show excellent progress of
reconstruction, rebuilding of local industry, and
return of an indigenous population...

- OTOH, NOLA continues to languish...

- one has to wonder why?

p.s. Google should tell Congress to pound sand...

--- Alan McConnell <alan@patriot.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 07:34:33PM -0400, Pete
> Nuwayser wrote:
> >
>
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/31/katrina.google.maps.ap/index.html
> > 
> > In a nutshell:  Google had at one point updated
> their maps of New
> > Orleans and other areas affected by Katrina with
> imagery showing the
> > damage.  Later, they put the pre-Katrina imagery
> back.  Now a House
> > subcommittee is calling them to the carpet over
> it, saying that Google
> > is doing a "great injustice by airbrushing
> history."
> > 
> > I find this move on the House's part strange,
> annoying and ridiculous.
> > First of all, Google may be a very popular
> Internet service, but
> > they're still free to put whatever content up they
> want.  They are not
> > a utility or government-regulated service.
> 	Pete, you are very ready to jump on the Congress
> for getting
> 	after Google.  But I would first ask: why did
> Google switch
> 	from a depiction of the present state of affairs --
> which AFAIK
> 	continues shamefully bad -- to a pre-Katrina
> depiction.  (I too
> 	was once handsome, with a full head of hair and no
> pot; but I'd
> 	be foolish and mendacious if I depicted myself that
> way now,
> 	no?)
> 
> 	So let's find out first who leaned on Google to
> airbrush history.
> 	This is probably not ascertainable.  After this
> determination 
> 	we can judge who is more culpable, the interests
> who leaned 
> 	on Google, or the Congress which is making a stink.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Alan
> 
> -- 
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