The Secrets of Google Maps
 

Interesting...

I was playing around with google maps today when I noticed something interesting. Looking around downtown Washington, DC they have removed details from the white house, capitol and several other buildings.

Has anyone else run across an area that has been tampered with?

Yeah, Looks like someone opened the Sat. Picture in Paint and brushed over the tops of the bulidings. Wonder if they did the same thing over Area 51 or other military bases.....

Surprisingly, even though the normal map shows just gray blobs with no roads, the satelite images of Miramar and Pendleton seem un-doctored.

Cool site.

I looked up EPCOT Center--you can see all of Future World and what I'm pretty sure it cast parking, but the back part of World Showcase is blurred and the map gets cut off. I zoomed out, and it looks like that picture is just really blurry. Intentional?

That's where the nuclear reactor is

I grew up not too far from an airport on Long Island. It, along with some of the surrounding town is completely blocked out. I have to assume that it is for security reasons, although it does seem odd that Mirimar and Pendleton would not be blocked, if that were the case.

Many of the photos are old. I know the ones around our home and my work are about 2 years old, based on what's under construction. Was anything built recently in that area of the World Showcase? Perhaps it was taken during construction and Disney requested the photo be obscured at the time it was taken.

The photo of my area is at least 3 years old as well, because my school in the picture is still a farm :D

We weren't home when our picture was taken...there were no vehicles in the driveway. Our Deck and patio cover are there so it's from 2000 or later.

I can see that there was a motorcross at Anaheim Stadium and the shadows are somewhat long so it's an late afternoon shortly before baseball season...also it was a weekend because of the lack of cars at my DH's workplace.

My son's new school building looks like it was finished, but my daughters preschool is an empty lot, so that means the picture is from Feb or March 2003. At least it is my best guess, anyways.

Yep, that was my estimate too. The building for the Albertsons on the corner was complete, but the parking lot was still dirt. That Albertsons opened in May of '03, so Feb. or March is about right.