[Geowanking] Fw: [LINK] "Terrorists use Google maps to hit UKtroops'"

[Peter Strømberg]

Incredible to think the images on GE are so up-to-date as to show the
existing positions
of things such at tents and land rovers. It seems irresponsible of Google to
publish
such sensitive information. In Iraq we casual users could probably live with
some older,
less specific data. 

Another worrying thing is the planning of terrorist attacks in the west,
where Google
and others pride themselves on having accurate, high resolution and current
information
available to ALL.

This will no doubt be used as an argument by some not to make accurate
public map data
freely available. But will that prevent terrorism? I seriously doubt it.

Peter Strømberg   

-----Original Message-----
From: geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to
[mailto:geowanking-bounces at lists.burri.to] On Behalf Of Bill Kearney
Sent: 13 January 2007 16:05
To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
Subject: [Geowanking] Fw: [LINK] "Terrorists use Google maps to hit
UKtroops'"

>From: "Jochen L. Leidner" <jochen.leidner at ED.AC.UK>
>
> This may be of interest to list subscribers:
>
> The Daily Telegraph reports today that Iraqi militants are using open 
> source IT to plan attacks:
>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/13/wgoogle13.xm
l
>
> However, I still believe the benefit of easily accessible geospatial 
> data outweights the dangers, which is also held by an NGA-commissioned
report:
> http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG142/index.html

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