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About Street View, privacy, Sweden and the UK
Google Street View cars are apparently combing Stockholm, and when those images finally make it into Google Maps and Earth, I’m pretty sure that the Swedes won’t collectively betray anything more than amused curiosity. That’s a completely different reaction to the pockets of hysteria that greeted the advent of Street View in the UK, mainly [...]
Continue reading...Egypt lifts its unenforceable ban on GPS
19. April 2009
Was it something I did? On April 5, the very day I moved from Egypt to Shanghai, the Egyptian government announced that its blanket ban on GPS devices was over. If I were more paranoid, I’d be taking it personally. As Egypt’s Daily News points out, the only two remaining countries banning GPS device use by [...]
Continue reading...Sweden gets an imagery upgrade, but is it censored?
12. April 2009
This past weekend’s Google Earth imagery update has brought higher resolution imagery to the lower two fifths of Sweden — I’m guessing around 1 meter resolution from looking at the resolution of cars. The imagery is credited to Lantmäteriet, Sweden’s state GIS agency, which previously has been excoriated on this blog for its blatant attempts to [...]
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19. April 2009
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