Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
More on Google Maps
Lots of mixed feelings out there about the 'eyes in the sky' whose results you can easily download using Google Maps. Can these images be used to invade your privacy? One blogger worries about it, but also finds it's a great tool to see exactly how much environmental devastation is being wreaked by logging in his part of British Columbia. He also includes links to other bloggers' comments. (Via Metafilter.) posted by liz at 12:58 PM
Comments:
I downloaded the Keyhole 2LT software, and wasn't greatly impressed. The picture often wasn't clear when trying to look at a site really close, so one seeking to get incredible detail about a location --- say to identifying features of a vehicle --- would be disappointed. Also there is no time code as to when the picture is taken, so people concerned with privacy issues have nothing really to be upset about.
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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