Google comments on the New Orleans imagery brouhaha
Monday, April 02, 2007 (14:07 UTC)
First this morning came the update to post-Katrina imagery for New Orleans in Google Maps and Earth's base layer, and now an explanatory blog post by Google Earth general manager John Hanke. In it he confirms:
- The post-Katrina imagery was removed from the base layer way back in September 2006, and nobody noticed until now.
- The post-Katrina imagery has remained available since then via several network links downloadable from this site, for example this network link.
- The new updated imagery of New Orleans is from 2006 and its publication was expedited after the outcry over the past few days.
The new imagery comes with no credit/sourcing, so it's not clear whose it is.
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According to John Hanke, the imagery is from the USGS.
Posted by: Frank Taylor at 18:01 UTC, April 02, 2007
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