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Google Earth not showing Arctic Ice Cap correctly
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| Seth Russell 2007-09-14, 3:33 pm |
| It's frustrating sometimes to get a big company like Google to do the
right thing. This is a case in point. The Earth needs a year by year
awareness of the melting Arctic ice cap. Yet Google refuses to show
it to us. The excuse goes something like "we only show images of land
masses and the arctic is not a land mass". The fix is easy ... change
that rule for the Arctic ... there are plenty of sources of imagery
available to Google.
If anyone can direct me to a better place to post this to get Google
to fix it, please let me know.
Seth Russell
http://fastblogit.com/seth
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| Roger Mills 2007-09-14, 3:33 pm |
| In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Seth Russell <russell.seth@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's frustrating sometimes to get a big company like Google to do the
> right thing. This is a case in point. The Earth needs a year by year
> awareness of the melting Arctic ice cap. Yet Google refuses to show
> it to us. The excuse goes something like "we only show images of land
> masses and the arctic is not a land mass". The fix is easy ... change
> that rule for the Arctic ... there are plenty of sources of imagery
> available to Google.
>
> If anyone can direct me to a better place to post this to get Google
> to fix it, please let me know.
>
> Seth Russell
> http://fastblogit.com/seth
They'd have to update it regularly too - which is more than can be said for
a lot of places. The picture of my house is over 5 years old, since it
doesn't show an extension which was built 5 years ago!
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| Linea Recta 2007-09-14, 3:33 pm |
| "Roger Mills" <watt.tyler@googlemail.com> schreef in bericht
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> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Seth Russell <russell.seth@gmail.com> wrote:
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> They'd have to update it regularly too - which is more than can be said
for
> a lot of places. The picture of my house is over 5 years old, since it
> doesn't show an extension which was built 5 years ago!
Before long there will be no ice cap at all... problem solved.
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| Seth Russell wrote:
> It's frustrating sometimes to get a big company like Google to do the
> right thing. This is a case in point. The Earth needs a year by year
> awareness of the melting Arctic ice cap. Yet Google refuses to show
> it to us. The excuse goes something like "we only show images of land
> masses and the arctic is not a land mass". The fix is easy ... change
> that rule for the Arctic ... there are plenty of sources of imagery
> available to Google.
>
> If anyone can direct me to a better place to post this to get Google
> to fix it, please let me know.
>
> Seth Russell
> http://fastblogit.com/seth
>
It'd be VERY expensive to do that, it would take LOADS of the $400
subscriptions to make up for it. Kinda much to ask of a service that is
vastly used for free. . .
How is your idea "the right thing"? How did this task become their
responsibility? It's surprising any company takes any steps forward when
people just use that as an excuse to bash them for not doing more, or
not taking up THEIR cause. .
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| On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:12:05 +0000, Seth Russell wrote:
> It's frustrating sometimes to get a big company like Google to do the
> right thing. This is a case in point. The Earth needs a year by year
> awareness of the melting Arctic ice cap. Yet Google refuses to show it
> to us. The excuse goes something like "we only show images of land
> masses and the arctic is not a land mass". The fix is easy ... change
> that rule for the Arctic ... there are plenty of sources of imagery
> available to Google.
It's better than that - google don't need to fix it, because they've made
it easy for you to fix it yourself: Simply add photo overlays linking this
easily available imagery, and submit it to the google earth community.
Then everyone who switches on the 'community' layer will be able to see
your data.
See http://bbs.keyhole.com/
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| Simon Slavin 2007-09-16, 10:33 pm |
| On 14/09/2007, Seth Russell wrote in message
<1189793525.940048.122470@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>:
> The Earth needs a year by year
> awareness of the melting Arctic ice cap. Yet Google refuses to show
> it to us.
Google doesn's show /anywhere/ year by year. The pictures of the area
where I live are at least three years old. So even if Google treated
arctica the same way as populated areas of the world it wouldn't do
anything for you.
In addition, how do you expect Google to conduct its photographical survey
of the arctic area ? They can hardly fly planes from one landing strip to
another.
Simon.
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http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk
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| Seth Russell 2007-09-17, 3:33 pm |
| On Sep 16, 11:54 am, Simon Slavin
<slavins.delete.these.four.wo...@hearsay.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 14/09/2007, Seth Russell wrote in message
> <1189793525.940048.122...@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>:
>
>
> Google doesn's show /anywhere/ year by year. The pictures of the area
> where I live are at least three years old. So even if Google treated
> arctica the same way as populated areas of the world it wouldn't do
> anything for you.
>
> In addition, how do you expect Google to conduct its photographical survey
> of the arctic area ? They can hardly fly planes from one landing strip to
> another.
>
> Simon.
> --http://www.hearsay.demon.co.uk
Google does not do most of the imaging of the Earth, it is done by
other outfits for various reasons. The same applies to the North
Pole. These are images available now from NASA.
Seth Russell
http://fastblogit.com/seth
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