[Geowanking] Cartographical censorship on MS Visual Earth

[Andrew Larcombe]

On 26 May 2007, at 23:15, Paolo Margari wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> visualizing a particular site, the military airport of Galatina  
> (Lecce, Southern Italy), there is a clear difference between Google  
> Earth and Microsoft Visual Earth. The former shows the site as it  
> is while the latter covers it with olive trees.
>
> Here's a detailed comparison: http://x-novo.blogspot.com/2007/05/ 
> vatti-fidare-di-microsoft.html
> with the related KMZ file to locate the site on Google Earth.
>
> I wonder how many sites are 'manipulated' and who's the best/the  
> worst in doing that among the two.
>

One question immediately springs to mind: Is it clear who is doing  
the censorship here? MS, Google, or their data providers?

Cheers,

Andrew

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