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When Google first starting getting into this Satellite/aerial photographs or whatever business, the water-ways in my area were un-blurred. I could easily locate wrecks/reefs to fish. Then they started blurring All the water, to the point I can't find any un-blurred anymore. I understand they would want to blur oil rigs and such but All the water. Really? They don't make it hard for the tin foil hat types, I tell ya. Google doesn't respond to questions about the subject ('All the water') Search it? Check the maps. Yahoo, Bing all the same shit..jtk
So to get 'Technical' they have blurred/re-colored/altered 2/3rds of the 'Planet'(seas/water-ways) plus whatever else is included on this list, plus what didnt make the list. So make it easy on yourselves and change the article to something short and sweet like:
"About 90% of the planet is altered on most Satellite/aerial photographs in the public domain and no one producing the maps/images has much to say about it." See Conspiracy Theories for Jesus Face on Google earth.
Evidence for argument: (See Google maps US Gulf Coast etc.) Look at the maps!!
No mention of the water ways in there entirety by any of you.
Class Dismissed! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.242.123.105 ( talk • contribs) 11:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm looking at the laos-thailand border, and I can't see a difference. Why is one listed and the other not? Novalis 01:20, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I checked today using google earth, it looks like a bunch of buildings with something of a sandstorm over them, terrible quality. Google maps has a way better version though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.18.240.159 ( talk) 02:02, 13 April 2007 (UTC).
The page should include some example places. That might quell the objection to this page. The blurred-out places are clearly blurred, not just low-resolution pictures. —Ben FrantzDale 02:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I've never really assembled a list in Wikipedia. But it's obvious we need some sort of common format for entries. Some have a link that's LAT and LONG, some just have a normal link, some have a link what a description. It's pretty much a mess. Would like some input on how it should be formatted, or I'll just pick a format and clean things up myself. I was thinking of adopting the definition list format which would create entries like this:
*; [http://maps.google.com/maps?z=16&ll=37.979775,-84.418881&t=k 37°58'47.1901" 84°25'7.9716"] : Southeast of Lexington, Kentucky
where we have *; [link lat and long in DMS format] : What's there
which would look like:
For reference, you can use this tool to convert your lat and long from the decimal format used by google maps to the more readable format of DMS. Or just do the math as described in Wikipedia's page on latitude and longitude.
The value of this format is we rely on consistent, easy to understand and format latitude and longitude list that will be clean and easy to organize. If this page survives AfD I'll organize it like this. -- Crypticgeek 15:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for compiling this! AxelBoldt 16:09, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I think this is a issue with the type of provider and that whatever they use has simply got overexposed (See Exposure_(photography)#Highlights ). If you zoom in on the Ramstein eventually you can see the sharp shadows of aircraft. If it was blurred out like the blatant Dutch ones then you shouldn't be able to see such sharp shadows and it would be more obvious so I think is just a flaw in that particular image provider i.e. Cnes/Spot. e.g. see the horticultural glasshouses at, [2] for similar flaring. Ttiotsw 21:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
I removed Reims AFB from the list. It does not have obvious censorship in that area, and we cannot be in the business of image analysis. If this page is going to stay all items on the list must be obviously censored otherwise it really is original research to say this area does not look right it must be censored. -- Daniel J. Leivick 16:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Re some people's comments here and here about possibly changing the article's name -- I'm fine with a name change, anyone suggest a possible name for the article? It would have to be something like list of google maps images that have ____ (unexplained/unnatural/unusual/purposeful/) distortion, bluring or are censored... I know that that was a very bad title and not a place to start -- just trying to spitfire ideas here. MrMacMan Talk 18:52, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I like the idea of a name change as well. How do people feel about List of satellite images on Google Maps with missing or unclear data? I know it's kind of lengthy, but I feel it's a very NPOV title. - Chardish 19:22, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Looking through maps.google.com and seeing missing data draws on your personal knowledge that such information is missing. Including that personal knowledge information in this Wikipedia article is original research. If someone else notices the missing data and comments about it in a published source, then it is material that may be added to the article. I added a reference column to the US list. A reference column should be added to each list and the reference for each entry in that list should be provided. If no reference is available for an entry, it means that that entry is original research and may be removed per original research policy. Wikipedia policy does not permit keeping unreferenced material while waiting for a future WP:RS to address that material. -- Jreferee 17:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
If my moving the word 'government' out of the link was appropriate, please do so for the rest. Else revert. Thanks. Jidanni 10:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
the article says that the white house is cencored in google earth and google maps. this is not the case any more ass the white house image has been uncencored for quite a while now. (anyway, it is the image providers that alter the images, not google themselves) -- Alphamone 22:32, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that Satellite images censored by Google Maps redirects here. Isn't this article mostly about Google's censoring of places? Rmsuperstar99 (as 68.198.226.195) 05:12, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
The Basra air base listing needs to be updated, as I just clicked on the link and no censoring appears evident. Perhaps it was just temporary? 68.146.47.196 13:15, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
The Sydney Morning Herald has a story today, but unfortunately it back-referenced this article [3]. Anecdotally, I can't zoom in as far as I could in (say) April of this year, but since I didn't save any searches I did of the Circular Quay area in anything other than Google, I've only got my memory to compare it with. Lou 04:59, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
I agree with you re the blurring. What makes a mockery of Googles claim that it is part of a "commercial issue" is the fact that the pleasure craft on the water appear sharp, but the boat wake does not. [4] It's also not possible to cross-reference with Live Earth because the MS imagery does not have the resolution that the Google imagery does. Byrnesr 00:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Not all images are from satellites. some imagery comes from aerial photographs, but the two are conflated. it should be retitled to "map images with missing or unclear data" wikiwhereto 12:05, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if someone could add a high level description of what has been blurred.
Not to criticise eloquence, but List of places blurred out?? Is Censorship by/of Google Maps too extreme? Then you could merge the article with more general censorship / access restrictions. ...Besides, at least two of the incidents aren't actually *blurring*. taliswolf 11:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure which they blocked, it could be militairy airport Volkel or our nuclear powerplants. I think the former, but I'm not sure.
Perhaps this article should describe the blurs in Google Maps and why they exist, censorship, lack of data, etc.
I think the old name "List of places blurred out on Google Maps" was much better, because not all locations are necessarily censorship -- they can be simply erronous data. - Philwiki 18:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Hmm, now that from the topic is "Google Maps" removed, how about blurring out and witholding satellite photos in other map services than Google Maps? I have one example in my mind from Sweden (Eniro.se) vs. Google Maps. This imho would be great addition! http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/04/sweden_plays_hi.html
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Why is this paragraph in the United states section? Please move: "Some governments have asked that portions of Google Earth to be blurred so that sensitive sites are not compromised". Jidanni 10:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Since the claim that Google Maps intentionally censored the blurred or obscured area is inherently POV, I will be aggressively removing unsourced sites per Jimbo Wales' instructions. Note that a link to a blurred area of Google Maps is not enough information to establish that Google Maps intentionally blurred the area, which is the claim that the article makes. - Chardish 16:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
There is nothing POV about stating the factual point that these images have been tampered with. If you're so allergic to the word "censored" then it can be "digitally blurred" which is clearly the case in the example I looked at (GE plant, accessed feb 7 2008) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.84.138.42 ( talk) 02:10, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone tell if this is an accidental inclusion of a cloud that just happens to cover a portion of a US military base, or a censored image? Google maps link Oanjao ( talk) 16:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Is the blurred region in Noordwijk aan Zee really an ESA site as stated? I've been to the European Space Agency's Technology Centre (ESTEC) at Noordwijk. ESTEC is down the coast a little at [5] but is not blurred out. Nothing to do with ESA , —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.24.249 ( talk) 16:51, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
The blurred region is definitely not ESA/ESTEC [6], which is indeed unblured as described above and situated a little further down south at Keplerlaan. I therefore edited the page. To me, it seems the blurred area is a pure residential area (but I cannot confirm 100% as I have not enough detailed knowledge of Noordwijk). Notaris ( talk) 11:25, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Its part of the stratigic gas/iol piplines running from Rotterdam , it's located in a residential area. else check Bing Maps, MIVD forgot there's more then one map maker
Doesn't seem to be whited out specifically, just looks like some very white concrete. Microsoft and Yahoo both have different images from Google, and you can clearly see they have the white concrete too (although yahoo doesn't have the same resolution). Danny252 ( talk) 15:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Not seeing any blurring here - can go into maximum zoom on GE and it's still perfectly sharp. Danny252 ( talk) 15:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Both Chelsea facilities were blurred earlier this year, as were the power station and scrap-metal processing plant next to the LNG terminal. They were not blurred today. Perhaps Deval Patrick's administration is less paranoid than Mitt Romney's. -- RadioTheodric ( talk) 14:32, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I was about to put a note in the article about how Google blurs many buildings in Qingdao, but I just looked at the city again, and the buildings aren't blurred anymore. Has anyone else noticed Google relaxing its censorship anywhere? I mean, those buildings were clearly blurred until recently. Worldruler20 ( talk) 11:31, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
This is a pretty silly title for things which are alleged to be intentionally censored or obscured—it makes it sound like the article is about places where Google Maps has poor resolution, where in reality the issue is places where the surrounding areas are very high resolution making it look like the place in question was intentionally put at low resolution.
And is it worth making it "generic" if every example is from Google Maps or Earth?
How about this for a new title: "Google satellite map images alleged to be intentionally obscured"? That's NPOV but a million times more accurate. -- 140.247.42.240 ( talk) 17:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
The city and west of the city is blurred but surrounding pastures are of fairly high quality. There are some significant interests based in Hamilton. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.188.20 ( talk) 01:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Most of the table for US locales seems to have been inadvertently moved to the very bottom of the article. I don't have experience with Wiki table formatting, so I'll leave the correction to a more experienced user. Trasel ( talk) 14:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Cheektowaga NY [7]
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Dunkirk, NY [8]
141.238.109.77 ( talk) 23:25, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Another point: Glenwood powerstation and oil storage south from Glenwood Landing, New York - similar to other blurred coastal facilities in NY state. WTF? NVO ( talk) 02:08, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Just stumbled across one in Cape Town, South Africa at -33.923705,18.451238 where something has been whited out. Very interesting. SteveCoppock ( talk) 09:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Friends, we have 2 places now in Russia: one obviously in Europe (near Moscow), and one at Far East, and so obviously Asia. Should we keep them both in one country section (then probably in Europe), or should we have 2 "Russias" in Europe and Asia sections respectively? I'm personally for the 1st approach, but I wonder what more experienced wikipedians would say =) Arseni ( talk) 09:43, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
There are several other websites that reference this page's claim that the home of actor William Hurt has been intentionally blurred (link 26). One blogger was even outraged at the censorship. However, the actor William Hurt never lived here. A review of the Fayette County property records web site ( http://www.fayettepva.com) shows that the blurred image contains two houses; the one on the northwest parcel owned by William Pearce and the one on the southeast parcel owned by Robert & Tina Gray. They have owned these properties for at least a decade, and the previous owners were not William Hurt. Consider also that these houses are appraised for less than $200,000 - Not where you would expect a celebrity to live. The houses are visible on maps.live.com, Google street view, and the Fayette County page. They're just typical middle-class houses.
The urban legend may have come about because a lawyer named William Hurt apparently owned some nearby property. In order to quell the rumor, I will leave the entry in the US table (since it is "missing or unclear data") but change the text to note that this is not the house of the actor William Hurt.
Savastio ( talk) 22:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
2002 imagery on Terraserver shows that both of the blurred-out houses had swimming pools. In 2005, it looks like the pool at the house on the left has been filled in. Odd. 64.130.183.199 ( talk) 14:56, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh sorry, I see I was somehow responsible for that wrong information then. I guess I mistook the lawyer named William Hurt with the actor because it appeared on some list of the houses in the same street. :S Its definitely wrong. I guess the there is another reason for the censorship. -- helohe (talk) 20:32, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
This whole page is absurd and should be radically changed or deleted , imo. "Satellite map images with missing or unclear data "??? So this page is a list of every satellite map with unclear data on it? It obviously isnt, and can't be, yet even if it was, where would be the wiki value in such a list?
As far as the spectre of 'government censorship' that obvious magnet to irrelevant conspiracy theorists and armchair wannabe spies, most of the listings on this page are not censored and never have been. Every inch of google maps with a blur or a cloud in it that someone thinks is sooper top secret is going to be a candidate for this list. (like the supposed home of actor William Hurt)
If theres no point (or possibility of) listing every temporarily incomplete satellite image, something which NASA and ESA would be obviously better at doing than a bunch of kids scanning google earth, and the truth is that very few of the aforementioned incomplete images are actually examples of censorship, than what is the point of this page?
When it was just a list of places that were obviously censored in Google Maps, it at least had a clear purpose and focus and then we could concentrate on keeping the list accurate. Now its way too ambiguous to be worth the effort. Trefalcon ( talk) 14:59, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Personal_Attacks before you spout more bullshit. Unfortunately your "opinion" doesn't mean shit. Do you have any logical reason why this page should be deleted? This page exists to publicly categorize images that have been blurred from public satellite imagery. Can you provide any evidence for the statement that "very few of the aforementioned incomplete images are actually examples of censorship"? No you can't, that's why this article doesn't make any explicit claims that they are or aren't, since you can't prove intent either way. 68.45.183.30 ( talk) 02:30, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
I think the point here was missed, this is supposed to be a collection of intentionally obscured sattelite images not of unclear images. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.91.131.52 ( talk) 20:44, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Some islands (especially those ones of western archipelago) are blurred or missing probably due to some sort of dirty bomb testing during late 40s or early 50s. Compare [9] and [10] Mind abuse ( talk) 23:33, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm a little puzzled about this list. How is this not original research? I'm not against the idea of this list; I just want to be certain that this list is the product of applying an objective & uncontroversial set of criteria, because it would probably take only one edit war for this to be drop-kicked into the shredder at AfD. -- llywrch 20:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Frankly, I think the lists need to be deleted. I'm seeing a lot of stuff like "airport copied and pasted" and "buildings blacked out and retouched" that look like a normal airport or buildings with black roofs to me. They have absolutely no means of verifiability unless compared against other sources, and that would still be original research even if they were. Plus half of these could just be cases where old satellite data bumps up against new (perhaps with certain areas omitted from the new data), and so it looks like stuff is blurry or intentionally modified. Without sources, this may as well be a conspiracy theorist forum. It doesn't belong on Wikipedia. — Wisq ( talk) 09:54, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
The site at 66°16′0″N 179°15′0″E / 66.26667°N 179.25000°E can be partially seen in this GeoEye IKONOS image from July 2000: [11]. Nothing unusual shown from the low-res free image. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 21:09, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Use the following KML to view as an overlay in Google Earth. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 21:28, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <GroundOverlay> <name>GeoEye Image 20000711234057100000100254482000004318000THC</name> <description>More info: http://geofuse.geoeye.com/landing/image-details/Default.aspx?id=20000711234057100000100254482000004318000THC Image from July 2000, shows nothing unusual.</description> <Icon> <href>http://geofuse.geoeye.com/static/browse/ikonos/2/kpms/2000/07/browse.43180.crss_sat.0.0.jpg</href> </Icon> <gx:LatLonQuad> <coordinates> 178.9171,66.18180000000001,0 179.1983,66.18470000000001,0 179.1997,66.31049999999999,0 178.917,66.3069,0 </coordinates> </gx:LatLonQuad> </GroundOverlay> </kml>
I'd like to second this, having recently revealed it in DigitalGlobe imagery:
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/q2sfb/this_spot_is_the_only_place_on_the_planet_that_is/
Neither of our efforts count as "not original research" though. Some effort should be made to finally debunk this farce. — Preceding unsigned comment added by XenonofArcticus ( talk • contribs) 23:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey,
Not sure if this an appropriate forum for this question. Wondering if someone could run their eye over (12.592507,-61.41714) and tell me if that is an intentional overlay. There's some kind of US narcotics intervention coast guard base there. NickCT ( talk) 13:55, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
I looked at this. So others can see it click here: 12°35′32.89″N 61°25′1.38″W / 12.5924694°N 61.4170500°W. It is obscure but it is kind of small. I don't think it is worth an entry. This is on Union Island in the country Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The coast guard station was built by the US but Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a Bolivarian nation, so who knows what's happening here. - GroveGuy ( talk) 02:59, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I notice Auburn Prison is also fuzd out. I think it possible that all NYSDOC places are like that. Probably a mass request to do that. 76.117.247.55 ( talk) 02:34, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Why the submarine base in UK was deleted??
This is censored. It is Faslane sub base, and the white fluffy things strategically place over the dockside are not clouds. 199.43.13.101 11:10, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, that's wrong. Look at the same join further down on the other side of the loch, the road has the same type/colour distortion. The distortion also matches up with the location of the dock concrete/large white building in the aerial picture on the Faslane entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HMNB_Clyde.jpg). It's not censorship, it's just an unfortunately placed join. 81.171.197.237 14:53, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
This place is not blurred any more. I can see it just fine. -- 65.67.98.193 19:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
... does not seem to be blurred (any more), does it? http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ie=UTF8&ll=49.43925,7.599277&spn=0.018864,0.03974&z=15&om=0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.65.126.15 ( talk) 14:19, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello, the one Spanish listing, the Castell de Montjuïc, isn't censored anymore (if it ever was, can't imagine why it would be). I'll remove it if noone has any objections. Trefalcon ( talk) 21:07, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
This is censored once again as of December 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.183.194 ( talk) 13:20, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Dutch Island is visible in google maps, it doesn't appear that it was ever censored. -- 66.30.179.86 ( talk) 21:34, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Bejnar - I see you changed the Ultricht item to say "Starting in 2010, only one building on Google, larger area apparent mistake." I don't know what this sentence is saying. The citation you provide is not very useful - it is in Dutch. Citations are not necessary in this article. Things are either obscured or they aren't. GroveGuy ( talk) 03:26, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
In the Middle East section of the Satellite page there is, I believe, a massive gap in reporting: the missing street name and other normal data from the West Bank area of Palestine (I have not so far checked Gaza). Jewish settlements across the West Bank are fully documented as you would expect in any Western country, but Palestinian towns and villages are blanked, for no conceivable reason I can put forward.
Here is an example: if you go to Google maps and type in "Kiryat Arba" you will find yourself looking at a Jewish settlement on the outskirts of Hebron. (Use the "Map" not the "Satellite" or "Earth" setting.) Then zoom in until you reach the 200 ft / 100 m scale. You see what you would expect: street names, sports centers, shopping centers and so on, all the normal things of daily life. Now drag the map to the right. You are moving West into Hebron. If you drag slightly up you see the Hebron Police Station. If you drag slightly down you see the "Ancient Jewish Cemetery" marked. Nothing else.
Hebron, a city of around 170,000 people, is blanked out. No street names, no shops, no schools, no sports centers. Yet if you use the "Satellite" or "Earth" setting you can see a densely packed city. This is true right across the West Bank.
Can anyone shed light on this?
Also can anyone confirm that this is true for Google US as it is for Google UK as I can't access Google US. Also, can anyone find formal documentation as to why Google Palestine offers that country no maps of anything at all? I guess it is because Palestinians are considered terrorists and should not therefore be allowed maps of anywhere in the world. But who made that decision, if that is the case?
Kingarts ( talk) 09:20, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
This article has several problems and I have tried to correct them as much as I can at the moment (will come back and do more later). First off, a lot the information is either out-of-date or purely WP:OR (like claiming something is missing or unclear with a description of "possibly clouds" when it's obviously clouds, or there is nothing unclear at all). Secondly, this article should be about areas which have been intentionally censored, not just a collection of all the errors, data corruption, gafs, blurry or clouded images, and other unintentional image problems. Otherwise what's the point? Wikipedia isn't just for random lists of information and so the article needs to have a more direct and purposeful introduction. Then there's the large number of typos which I have also tried to correct, at least in the sections I've edited. Coinmanj ( talk) 07:04, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Mirabel Airport seems to be whited out... Can anybody add it to the list or explain why it is whited out or why it is not in this list? CielProfond ( talk) 17:05, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
I read about censoring locations in Hungary, AFAIR some military ranges and power facilities. I actually know a power facility switching yard in Budapest which is greened out for some silly security reasons... -- Rev L. Snowfox ( talk) 23:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Sources:
-- Rev L. Snowfox ( talk) 19:43, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
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Notes on the format:
1)Additions should ideally include a wikilink to what is actually blurred out (see the last two in US ) - Francis Tyers · 12:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
List of recommendations:
1) I've found a blurred location that does not seem to be listed, could someone please identify it and add it? It is near Hawthorne, NY. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hawthorne,+ny&ie=UTF8&ll=41.087098,-73.80641&spn=0.003372,0.005504&t=k&z=17&om=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.116.211.2 ( talk) 08:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
2) I see a Plano IL. No mention of the secure site near Plano TX? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.75.129.186 ( talk) 04:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
3) There's another blurred out part in Vlissingen (The Netherlands). It's an ammo depot next to Fort Rammekens. It's located at 51.455591, 3.649135 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.176.82.176 ( talk) 10:25, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
4) Scott Base in Antarctia is obscured according to the google maps location of the base, the wikipedia article does not have any gps coordinates to check this.
5) ITER, Cadarache, France. Site of fusion reactor in low resolution. As seen on 43.699446,5.7507175 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.112.144.241 ( talk) 14:28, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
6) Chateau de Bity, near Correze France, lowered resolution, residence of Jacques Chirac - https://goo.gl/maps/DSmycF3Wjvj — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.92.250.86 ( talk) 14:39, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
43°45'11"N 4°23'33"E blurred out, the Russians are less discreet [14]. -- Hugitobi ( talk) 15:35, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
This article currently has only 14 inline citations (1 of which is a dead link) and 2 external links, while the number of country subsections in the table of contents is 19. This article is severely undersourced, (for example, see the South Korea subsection which makes multiple claims, such as "Every military used land (US and ROK) is altered to show woodland or mountains. Also the nuclear reactor sites and many airports and possibly other civilian infrastructure.", but has no sources listed - not even a link to which reliable, independent source(s) merited its inclusion, or a link to an example in a map). This WP:OR problem was noted in the AfD discussion and the deletion review. In the same discussions (9 years ago, by the way) editors said that references would be added soon (or words to that affect), but now, almost a decade later, it is still undersourced.
Personally I don't think that a link to a location in Google Maps, as the only source for some of the locations in this article - like in this subsection, is acceptable as a source, as it requires interpretation by the reader/editor as to what is displayed in the map image. In the case of the Russia subsection (linked above), it says in the notes for Severnaya Zemlya, a large archipelago off the north coast of Russia, that "All of the major islands have obviously been blurred"; what does "obviously" mean, is it that someone or something has done it for a reason, or that it has been an accident (as in, obviously an accident), or that it is due to some error with the imagery? This is not clear at all. The link provided is to here. As soon as you start trying to explain what the lines are, you are conducting original research, as nothing on the map indicates or explains what it is or why it's there, so by definition, you are doing your own "research" into what it is, whether by conducting actual research or just by using "educated guesses".
I personally think that quite a lot of this article is WP:OR. Reliable, independent sources need to be found. Also, I think the essay Wikipedia:Using maps and similar sources in Wikipedia articles is very useful here, especially the last section #Original research.
The presence of an object on a map is not sufficient by itself to show notability of a subject.
Even maps produced using reliable sources (such as GIS data) can have minor errors as a result of errors in the underlying database ... Minor map errors are common, for that reason any map detail that is key to the article should be confirmed with a separate map from a different publisher. Rarely are map errors notable, even if they have gone uncorrected for decades.
We need to find sources soon, or otherwise I personally think that the unsourced/badly sourced material should be removed, per WP:V: "Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source. Whether and how quickly material should be initially removed for not having an inline citation to a reliable source depends on the material and the overall state of the article. In some cases, editors may object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references". Nine years is long enough to provide a reliable source. Seagull123 Φ 22:53, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
I recently stumbled upon a heavily pixelated image in Greece. It's pretty obvious it's no error, it's a polygon matching what seems to be a military facility. Unfortunately, I don't have the time (or the skills :) to add it to the list myself. I just thought it would be interesting, since Greece is not on the list. The coordinates are: 36.209391 27.863949 It's on the island of Rhodes, in Greece. Google Maps pixelated it, and Bing Maps shows an image where the ground is (mostly) obscured by clouds. It seems to be a RADAR facility/array. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Razvan mod ( talk • contribs) 20:37, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
I deleted the information about Gabcikovo power plant. The Google maps image is not obscured, or replaced by grass, it is exactly how it in reality is. Just check Google street maps.
188.167.157.203 ( talk) 15:17, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Should I remove the entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kylerschin ( talk • contribs) 15:26, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Possible blurring of large dry lake named White Sands, to the direct West of Holloman Air Force Base. Entire dry lake appears to be edited to conceal, as there appears to be an extension of Holloman in the area (marked by a red and white water tower) Example of odd effect: http://i.imgur.com/ebRt4cp.png (Holloman to the east) http://i.imgur.com/SoTJL9m.jpg small base extension (dirt road trails off to Holloman AFB) Coordinates: 32°53'25.0"N 106°19'42.1"W Image far above: http://i.imgur.com/cTVZfgL.png?1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolven1 ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Can someone confirm the following is a black fuzzy blob on Google Maps? Other services show a small island here and a few others just South, some of which are also blacked out.
20.909279, -92.221057 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttg512 ( talk • contribs) 15:35, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Ttg512 ( talk) 16:06, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Confirmed. There's a giant blotch there. I doubt this is a stitching error like many of these could be, that's quite odd. Found another: 14°24'28.7"N 80°15'37.3"W — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolven1 ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
The gray blur on the southern face of Ama Dablam is clearly a cloud. Look to the east; the horizontal line continues. Clearly what happened is two sections of the map were imaged at different times. The northern face of Ama Dublam and a large region to the north and west were imaged when there a) wasn't a cloud and b) the ground was darker because of the lighting. It's an artifact of compositing and the section should probably be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.243.28.55 ( talk) 04:55, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Has there been any official word from Google over why they cooperate with governments who want things censored? If it were me I'd put my users' interests first and let governments deal with their own problems. flarn2006 [ u t c] time: 15:50, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Some appear to be missing such as this building: [15] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:1001:E120:955A:FDE0:9A94:5046 ( talk) 22:53, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Where are all the sources in this article? Poked around Google Earth and Google Maps last night to verify some of the "blurred out"/"altered"/"obscured" images in North America and could only verify the distorted stretch of the US-Mexico border. Everything else seemed to be outdated at best and inaccurate/unverifiable at worst. I fear that this page is one smorgasbord of original research. Thoughts? One two three... 21:31, 3 September 2016 (UTC) The entire point of this is that it's original research. What news agency is going to bother with this? It's nothing big. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolven1 ( talk • contribs) 18:04, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Google streetview, including photospheres on NW of corfu, and opposite Albanian coast have censored all viewes across the strait. Satellite view, oddly, is pixelating boats in the channel. Bing maps satellite unaffected. Greece and Albanian sides affected 90.69.115.214 ( talk) 19:06, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved, the Opposer's argument is unconvincing as the OR issue is not relevant to RM, and they themselves acknowledge that the article is a list. ( non-admin closure) Iffy★ Chat -- 12:33, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Satellite map images with missing or unclear data →
List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data – Ultimately this is a list article
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The Asia table states: "The entire country of Israel is shown pixelated in all mapping services, including Google maps, ..."
This is manifestly untrue. I looked at Jerusalem in Google Maps not an hour ago, and it's no more pixelated or blurred than my own neighborhood in upstate New York. I can zoom in far enough to see chimneys on the roof tops and individual cars in the street. Moreover, many public facilities are specifically pinpointed and labeled -- e.g., schools, synagogues, shopping centers, restaurants, parks, etc.
The "Israel" entry should be removed from the list. 70.89.176.249 ( talk) 02:46, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that the statement saying the White House has been obscured is false. I discovered this when i searched Google maps and it displayed the White House in clear view as well as the address. I have therefore removed "Including the White House"
After looking over the source again it mentions nothing of obscuring images of Washington, therefore i have removed the statement.
On [16] also: westpoint —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.56.125 ( talk • contribs)
Please keep entries sorted by coordinates. Thanks.
Nice Remand Prison in France is pixelated, but I couldn't find it on the list here. SonnikuSan ( talk) 16:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
A space just north of Brussels Airport is pixelated. Street view is also disabled here. However, as far as I can see this article does not list it. SonnikuSan ( talk) 16:46, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
if you go on google earth pro and go in northern greenland you will find "glitchy" stuff like huge colored rectangles covering the ice and water on northern greenland its not mentioned on the article though — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:E70B:8E00:ECE3:97E5:264B:DE77 ( talk) 03:37, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
I think these glitch patches are not deliberately censored, but rather the result of warping the satellite imagery to fit the Mercator projection of the flat map, and not bothering to use more high def images because there's not much of a point in doing it for somewhere like Greenland. SonnikuSan ( talk) 18:50, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
49.139172, 5.494068 There seems to be a blurred out complex west of the small french village of Châtillon-sous-les-Côtes, in the midst of the forest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spagyr ( talk • contribs) 21:45, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Canterbury Tail: I found a web page that shows the grey rectangle on Rikers island on google maps. Nuretok ( talk) 18:10, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
On Google Earth and Google Earth Pro, Chernobyl at 51°23′21″N 30°05′58″E is a fake image. High resolution geometric towers have been placed on a blurred or false background. Charles Juvon ( talk) 18:49, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Puig Major is also censored I think but not in the list? GBM ( talk) 14:13, 22 March 2022 (UTC) /info/en/?search=Puig_Major
Multiple military airfields (Pirkkala for example) and naval installations on Hanko are pixelated, yet they are not on this list. Anyone mind adding them? 2001:14BB:A1:3AA6:5D1F:C190:A358:378C ( talk) 14:36, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
Penly Nuclear Power Plant east of Dieppe has been pixelated to cover the majority of the plant. The pixelated section contours to the physical boundaries of the power plant, suggesting it was done on purpose. Coordinates are: 49°58'40.4"N 1°12'33.8"E (49.977881, 1.209388). Wanted to suggest it here rather than edit the page myself because 1) editing the table of locations is like stepping into a time machine to the 1990s; and 2) after I spend my time putting in the new location, some Wikipedia user with nothing better to do will find some excuse buried in the Wikipedia rules as to why they should delete whatever I added in. 68.147.191.145 ( talk) 21:20, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
There are dozens of blacked out areas in the sea north of the Shoalwater Bay military training area, Queensland, Australia in the area of Ripple Island Reef 161.8.238.98 ( talk) 13:31, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
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When Google first starting getting into this Satellite/aerial photographs or whatever business, the water-ways in my area were un-blurred. I could easily locate wrecks/reefs to fish. Then they started blurring All the water, to the point I can't find any un-blurred anymore. I understand they would want to blur oil rigs and such but All the water. Really? They don't make it hard for the tin foil hat types, I tell ya. Google doesn't respond to questions about the subject ('All the water') Search it? Check the maps. Yahoo, Bing all the same shit..jtk
So to get 'Technical' they have blurred/re-colored/altered 2/3rds of the 'Planet'(seas/water-ways) plus whatever else is included on this list, plus what didnt make the list. So make it easy on yourselves and change the article to something short and sweet like:
"About 90% of the planet is altered on most Satellite/aerial photographs in the public domain and no one producing the maps/images has much to say about it." See Conspiracy Theories for Jesus Face on Google earth.
Evidence for argument: (See Google maps US Gulf Coast etc.) Look at the maps!!
No mention of the water ways in there entirety by any of you.
Class Dismissed! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.242.123.105 ( talk • contribs) 11:02, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm looking at the laos-thailand border, and I can't see a difference. Why is one listed and the other not? Novalis 01:20, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I checked today using google earth, it looks like a bunch of buildings with something of a sandstorm over them, terrible quality. Google maps has a way better version though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.18.240.159 ( talk) 02:02, 13 April 2007 (UTC).
The page should include some example places. That might quell the objection to this page. The blurred-out places are clearly blurred, not just low-resolution pictures. —Ben FrantzDale 02:26, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I've never really assembled a list in Wikipedia. But it's obvious we need some sort of common format for entries. Some have a link that's LAT and LONG, some just have a normal link, some have a link what a description. It's pretty much a mess. Would like some input on how it should be formatted, or I'll just pick a format and clean things up myself. I was thinking of adopting the definition list format which would create entries like this:
*; [http://maps.google.com/maps?z=16&ll=37.979775,-84.418881&t=k 37°58'47.1901" 84°25'7.9716"] : Southeast of Lexington, Kentucky
where we have *; [link lat and long in DMS format] : What's there
which would look like:
For reference, you can use this tool to convert your lat and long from the decimal format used by google maps to the more readable format of DMS. Or just do the math as described in Wikipedia's page on latitude and longitude.
The value of this format is we rely on consistent, easy to understand and format latitude and longitude list that will be clean and easy to organize. If this page survives AfD I'll organize it like this. -- Crypticgeek 15:32, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for compiling this! AxelBoldt 16:09, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
I think this is a issue with the type of provider and that whatever they use has simply got overexposed (See Exposure_(photography)#Highlights ). If you zoom in on the Ramstein eventually you can see the sharp shadows of aircraft. If it was blurred out like the blatant Dutch ones then you shouldn't be able to see such sharp shadows and it would be more obvious so I think is just a flaw in that particular image provider i.e. Cnes/Spot. e.g. see the horticultural glasshouses at, [2] for similar flaring. Ttiotsw 21:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
I removed Reims AFB from the list. It does not have obvious censorship in that area, and we cannot be in the business of image analysis. If this page is going to stay all items on the list must be obviously censored otherwise it really is original research to say this area does not look right it must be censored. -- Daniel J. Leivick 16:39, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
Re some people's comments here and here about possibly changing the article's name -- I'm fine with a name change, anyone suggest a possible name for the article? It would have to be something like list of google maps images that have ____ (unexplained/unnatural/unusual/purposeful/) distortion, bluring or are censored... I know that that was a very bad title and not a place to start -- just trying to spitfire ideas here. MrMacMan Talk 18:52, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I like the idea of a name change as well. How do people feel about List of satellite images on Google Maps with missing or unclear data? I know it's kind of lengthy, but I feel it's a very NPOV title. - Chardish 19:22, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Looking through maps.google.com and seeing missing data draws on your personal knowledge that such information is missing. Including that personal knowledge information in this Wikipedia article is original research. If someone else notices the missing data and comments about it in a published source, then it is material that may be added to the article. I added a reference column to the US list. A reference column should be added to each list and the reference for each entry in that list should be provided. If no reference is available for an entry, it means that that entry is original research and may be removed per original research policy. Wikipedia policy does not permit keeping unreferenced material while waiting for a future WP:RS to address that material. -- Jreferee 17:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
If my moving the word 'government' out of the link was appropriate, please do so for the rest. Else revert. Thanks. Jidanni 10:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
the article says that the white house is cencored in google earth and google maps. this is not the case any more ass the white house image has been uncencored for quite a while now. (anyway, it is the image providers that alter the images, not google themselves) -- Alphamone 22:32, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
I noticed that Satellite images censored by Google Maps redirects here. Isn't this article mostly about Google's censoring of places? Rmsuperstar99 (as 68.198.226.195) 05:12, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
The Basra air base listing needs to be updated, as I just clicked on the link and no censoring appears evident. Perhaps it was just temporary? 68.146.47.196 13:15, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
The Sydney Morning Herald has a story today, but unfortunately it back-referenced this article [3]. Anecdotally, I can't zoom in as far as I could in (say) April of this year, but since I didn't save any searches I did of the Circular Quay area in anything other than Google, I've only got my memory to compare it with. Lou 04:59, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
I agree with you re the blurring. What makes a mockery of Googles claim that it is part of a "commercial issue" is the fact that the pleasure craft on the water appear sharp, but the boat wake does not. [4] It's also not possible to cross-reference with Live Earth because the MS imagery does not have the resolution that the Google imagery does. Byrnesr 00:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Not all images are from satellites. some imagery comes from aerial photographs, but the two are conflated. it should be retitled to "map images with missing or unclear data" wikiwhereto 12:05, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if someone could add a high level description of what has been blurred.
Not to criticise eloquence, but List of places blurred out?? Is Censorship by/of Google Maps too extreme? Then you could merge the article with more general censorship / access restrictions. ...Besides, at least two of the incidents aren't actually *blurring*. taliswolf 11:05, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I'm not sure which they blocked, it could be militairy airport Volkel or our nuclear powerplants. I think the former, but I'm not sure.
Perhaps this article should describe the blurs in Google Maps and why they exist, censorship, lack of data, etc.
I think the old name "List of places blurred out on Google Maps" was much better, because not all locations are necessarily censorship -- they can be simply erronous data. - Philwiki 18:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
Hmm, now that from the topic is "Google Maps" removed, how about blurring out and witholding satellite photos in other map services than Google Maps? I have one example in my mind from Sweden (Eniro.se) vs. Google Maps. This imho would be great addition! http://www.ogleearth.com/2006/04/sweden_plays_hi.html
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BetacommandBot 06:17, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Why is this paragraph in the United states section? Please move: "Some governments have asked that portions of Google Earth to be blurred so that sensitive sites are not compromised". Jidanni 10:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
Since the claim that Google Maps intentionally censored the blurred or obscured area is inherently POV, I will be aggressively removing unsourced sites per Jimbo Wales' instructions. Note that a link to a blurred area of Google Maps is not enough information to establish that Google Maps intentionally blurred the area, which is the claim that the article makes. - Chardish 16:26, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
There is nothing POV about stating the factual point that these images have been tampered with. If you're so allergic to the word "censored" then it can be "digitally blurred" which is clearly the case in the example I looked at (GE plant, accessed feb 7 2008) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.84.138.42 ( talk) 02:10, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone tell if this is an accidental inclusion of a cloud that just happens to cover a portion of a US military base, or a censored image? Google maps link Oanjao ( talk) 16:20, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Is the blurred region in Noordwijk aan Zee really an ESA site as stated? I've been to the European Space Agency's Technology Centre (ESTEC) at Noordwijk. ESTEC is down the coast a little at [5] but is not blurred out. Nothing to do with ESA , —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.24.249 ( talk) 16:51, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
The blurred region is definitely not ESA/ESTEC [6], which is indeed unblured as described above and situated a little further down south at Keplerlaan. I therefore edited the page. To me, it seems the blurred area is a pure residential area (but I cannot confirm 100% as I have not enough detailed knowledge of Noordwijk). Notaris ( talk) 11:25, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
Its part of the stratigic gas/iol piplines running from Rotterdam , it's located in a residential area. else check Bing Maps, MIVD forgot there's more then one map maker
Doesn't seem to be whited out specifically, just looks like some very white concrete. Microsoft and Yahoo both have different images from Google, and you can clearly see they have the white concrete too (although yahoo doesn't have the same resolution). Danny252 ( talk) 15:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Not seeing any blurring here - can go into maximum zoom on GE and it's still perfectly sharp. Danny252 ( talk) 15:13, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
Both Chelsea facilities were blurred earlier this year, as were the power station and scrap-metal processing plant next to the LNG terminal. They were not blurred today. Perhaps Deval Patrick's administration is less paranoid than Mitt Romney's. -- RadioTheodric ( talk) 14:32, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
I was about to put a note in the article about how Google blurs many buildings in Qingdao, but I just looked at the city again, and the buildings aren't blurred anymore. Has anyone else noticed Google relaxing its censorship anywhere? I mean, those buildings were clearly blurred until recently. Worldruler20 ( talk) 11:31, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
This is a pretty silly title for things which are alleged to be intentionally censored or obscured—it makes it sound like the article is about places where Google Maps has poor resolution, where in reality the issue is places where the surrounding areas are very high resolution making it look like the place in question was intentionally put at low resolution.
And is it worth making it "generic" if every example is from Google Maps or Earth?
How about this for a new title: "Google satellite map images alleged to be intentionally obscured"? That's NPOV but a million times more accurate. -- 140.247.42.240 ( talk) 17:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
The city and west of the city is blurred but surrounding pastures are of fairly high quality. There are some significant interests based in Hamilton. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.97.188.20 ( talk) 01:43, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
Most of the table for US locales seems to have been inadvertently moved to the very bottom of the article. I don't have experience with Wiki table formatting, so I'll leave the correction to a more experienced user. Trasel ( talk) 14:50, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Cheektowaga NY [7]
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Dunkirk, NY [8]
141.238.109.77 ( talk) 23:25, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
Another point: Glenwood powerstation and oil storage south from Glenwood Landing, New York - similar to other blurred coastal facilities in NY state. WTF? NVO ( talk) 02:08, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Just stumbled across one in Cape Town, South Africa at -33.923705,18.451238 where something has been whited out. Very interesting. SteveCoppock ( talk) 09:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Friends, we have 2 places now in Russia: one obviously in Europe (near Moscow), and one at Far East, and so obviously Asia. Should we keep them both in one country section (then probably in Europe), or should we have 2 "Russias" in Europe and Asia sections respectively? I'm personally for the 1st approach, but I wonder what more experienced wikipedians would say =) Arseni ( talk) 09:43, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
There are several other websites that reference this page's claim that the home of actor William Hurt has been intentionally blurred (link 26). One blogger was even outraged at the censorship. However, the actor William Hurt never lived here. A review of the Fayette County property records web site ( http://www.fayettepva.com) shows that the blurred image contains two houses; the one on the northwest parcel owned by William Pearce and the one on the southeast parcel owned by Robert & Tina Gray. They have owned these properties for at least a decade, and the previous owners were not William Hurt. Consider also that these houses are appraised for less than $200,000 - Not where you would expect a celebrity to live. The houses are visible on maps.live.com, Google street view, and the Fayette County page. They're just typical middle-class houses.
The urban legend may have come about because a lawyer named William Hurt apparently owned some nearby property. In order to quell the rumor, I will leave the entry in the US table (since it is "missing or unclear data") but change the text to note that this is not the house of the actor William Hurt.
Savastio ( talk) 22:30, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
2002 imagery on Terraserver shows that both of the blurred-out houses had swimming pools. In 2005, it looks like the pool at the house on the left has been filled in. Odd. 64.130.183.199 ( talk) 14:56, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
Oh sorry, I see I was somehow responsible for that wrong information then. I guess I mistook the lawyer named William Hurt with the actor because it appeared on some list of the houses in the same street. :S Its definitely wrong. I guess the there is another reason for the censorship. -- helohe (talk) 20:32, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
This whole page is absurd and should be radically changed or deleted , imo. "Satellite map images with missing or unclear data "??? So this page is a list of every satellite map with unclear data on it? It obviously isnt, and can't be, yet even if it was, where would be the wiki value in such a list?
As far as the spectre of 'government censorship' that obvious magnet to irrelevant conspiracy theorists and armchair wannabe spies, most of the listings on this page are not censored and never have been. Every inch of google maps with a blur or a cloud in it that someone thinks is sooper top secret is going to be a candidate for this list. (like the supposed home of actor William Hurt)
If theres no point (or possibility of) listing every temporarily incomplete satellite image, something which NASA and ESA would be obviously better at doing than a bunch of kids scanning google earth, and the truth is that very few of the aforementioned incomplete images are actually examples of censorship, than what is the point of this page?
When it was just a list of places that were obviously censored in Google Maps, it at least had a clear purpose and focus and then we could concentrate on keeping the list accurate. Now its way too ambiguous to be worth the effort. Trefalcon ( talk) 14:59, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Personal_Attacks before you spout more bullshit. Unfortunately your "opinion" doesn't mean shit. Do you have any logical reason why this page should be deleted? This page exists to publicly categorize images that have been blurred from public satellite imagery. Can you provide any evidence for the statement that "very few of the aforementioned incomplete images are actually examples of censorship"? No you can't, that's why this article doesn't make any explicit claims that they are or aren't, since you can't prove intent either way. 68.45.183.30 ( talk) 02:30, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
I think the point here was missed, this is supposed to be a collection of intentionally obscured sattelite images not of unclear images. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.91.131.52 ( talk) 20:44, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Some islands (especially those ones of western archipelago) are blurred or missing probably due to some sort of dirty bomb testing during late 40s or early 50s. Compare [9] and [10] Mind abuse ( talk) 23:33, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
I'm a little puzzled about this list. How is this not original research? I'm not against the idea of this list; I just want to be certain that this list is the product of applying an objective & uncontroversial set of criteria, because it would probably take only one edit war for this to be drop-kicked into the shredder at AfD. -- llywrch 20:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
Frankly, I think the lists need to be deleted. I'm seeing a lot of stuff like "airport copied and pasted" and "buildings blacked out and retouched" that look like a normal airport or buildings with black roofs to me. They have absolutely no means of verifiability unless compared against other sources, and that would still be original research even if they were. Plus half of these could just be cases where old satellite data bumps up against new (perhaps with certain areas omitted from the new data), and so it looks like stuff is blurry or intentionally modified. Without sources, this may as well be a conspiracy theorist forum. It doesn't belong on Wikipedia. — Wisq ( talk) 09:54, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
The site at 66°16′0″N 179°15′0″E / 66.26667°N 179.25000°E can be partially seen in this GeoEye IKONOS image from July 2000: [11]. Nothing unusual shown from the low-res free image. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 21:09, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Use the following KML to view as an overlay in Google Earth. -- ChrisRuvolo ( t) 21:28, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:gx="http://www.google.com/kml/ext/2.2" xmlns:kml="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <GroundOverlay> <name>GeoEye Image 20000711234057100000100254482000004318000THC</name> <description>More info: http://geofuse.geoeye.com/landing/image-details/Default.aspx?id=20000711234057100000100254482000004318000THC Image from July 2000, shows nothing unusual.</description> <Icon> <href>http://geofuse.geoeye.com/static/browse/ikonos/2/kpms/2000/07/browse.43180.crss_sat.0.0.jpg</href> </Icon> <gx:LatLonQuad> <coordinates> 178.9171,66.18180000000001,0 179.1983,66.18470000000001,0 179.1997,66.31049999999999,0 178.917,66.3069,0 </coordinates> </gx:LatLonQuad> </GroundOverlay> </kml>
I'd like to second this, having recently revealed it in DigitalGlobe imagery:
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/q2sfb/this_spot_is_the_only_place_on_the_planet_that_is/
Neither of our efforts count as "not original research" though. Some effort should be made to finally debunk this farce. — Preceding unsigned comment added by XenonofArcticus ( talk • contribs) 23:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hey,
Not sure if this an appropriate forum for this question. Wondering if someone could run their eye over (12.592507,-61.41714) and tell me if that is an intentional overlay. There's some kind of US narcotics intervention coast guard base there. NickCT ( talk) 13:55, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
I looked at this. So others can see it click here: 12°35′32.89″N 61°25′1.38″W / 12.5924694°N 61.4170500°W. It is obscure but it is kind of small. I don't think it is worth an entry. This is on Union Island in the country Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The coast guard station was built by the US but Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a Bolivarian nation, so who knows what's happening here. - GroveGuy ( talk) 02:59, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
I notice Auburn Prison is also fuzd out. I think it possible that all NYSDOC places are like that. Probably a mass request to do that. 76.117.247.55 ( talk) 02:34, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
Why the submarine base in UK was deleted??
This is censored. It is Faslane sub base, and the white fluffy things strategically place over the dockside are not clouds. 199.43.13.101 11:10, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, that's wrong. Look at the same join further down on the other side of the loch, the road has the same type/colour distortion. The distortion also matches up with the location of the dock concrete/large white building in the aerial picture on the Faslane entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HMNB_Clyde.jpg). It's not censorship, it's just an unfortunately placed join. 81.171.197.237 14:53, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
This place is not blurred any more. I can see it just fine. -- 65.67.98.193 19:41, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
... does not seem to be blurred (any more), does it? http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ie=UTF8&ll=49.43925,7.599277&spn=0.018864,0.03974&z=15&om=0 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.65.126.15 ( talk) 14:19, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello, the one Spanish listing, the Castell de Montjuïc, isn't censored anymore (if it ever was, can't imagine why it would be). I'll remove it if noone has any objections. Trefalcon ( talk) 21:07, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
This is censored once again as of December 2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.107.183.194 ( talk) 13:20, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Dutch Island is visible in google maps, it doesn't appear that it was ever censored. -- 66.30.179.86 ( talk) 21:34, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Bejnar - I see you changed the Ultricht item to say "Starting in 2010, only one building on Google, larger area apparent mistake." I don't know what this sentence is saying. The citation you provide is not very useful - it is in Dutch. Citations are not necessary in this article. Things are either obscured or they aren't. GroveGuy ( talk) 03:26, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
In the Middle East section of the Satellite page there is, I believe, a massive gap in reporting: the missing street name and other normal data from the West Bank area of Palestine (I have not so far checked Gaza). Jewish settlements across the West Bank are fully documented as you would expect in any Western country, but Palestinian towns and villages are blanked, for no conceivable reason I can put forward.
Here is an example: if you go to Google maps and type in "Kiryat Arba" you will find yourself looking at a Jewish settlement on the outskirts of Hebron. (Use the "Map" not the "Satellite" or "Earth" setting.) Then zoom in until you reach the 200 ft / 100 m scale. You see what you would expect: street names, sports centers, shopping centers and so on, all the normal things of daily life. Now drag the map to the right. You are moving West into Hebron. If you drag slightly up you see the Hebron Police Station. If you drag slightly down you see the "Ancient Jewish Cemetery" marked. Nothing else.
Hebron, a city of around 170,000 people, is blanked out. No street names, no shops, no schools, no sports centers. Yet if you use the "Satellite" or "Earth" setting you can see a densely packed city. This is true right across the West Bank.
Can anyone shed light on this?
Also can anyone confirm that this is true for Google US as it is for Google UK as I can't access Google US. Also, can anyone find formal documentation as to why Google Palestine offers that country no maps of anything at all? I guess it is because Palestinians are considered terrorists and should not therefore be allowed maps of anywhere in the world. But who made that decision, if that is the case?
Kingarts ( talk) 09:20, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
This article has several problems and I have tried to correct them as much as I can at the moment (will come back and do more later). First off, a lot the information is either out-of-date or purely WP:OR (like claiming something is missing or unclear with a description of "possibly clouds" when it's obviously clouds, or there is nothing unclear at all). Secondly, this article should be about areas which have been intentionally censored, not just a collection of all the errors, data corruption, gafs, blurry or clouded images, and other unintentional image problems. Otherwise what's the point? Wikipedia isn't just for random lists of information and so the article needs to have a more direct and purposeful introduction. Then there's the large number of typos which I have also tried to correct, at least in the sections I've edited. Coinmanj ( talk) 07:04, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Mirabel Airport seems to be whited out... Can anybody add it to the list or explain why it is whited out or why it is not in this list? CielProfond ( talk) 17:05, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
I read about censoring locations in Hungary, AFAIR some military ranges and power facilities. I actually know a power facility switching yard in Budapest which is greened out for some silly security reasons... -- Rev L. Snowfox ( talk) 23:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Sources:
-- Rev L. Snowfox ( talk) 19:43, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment case missing (most of the satellite imagery companies are US-based which has a direct impact on policies, as there are Google providers) which is concerning Israel too, this is an encyclopedia and this topic has its place here and especially here. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.228.86.114 ( talk) 22:35, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
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Notes on the format:
1)Additions should ideally include a wikilink to what is actually blurred out (see the last two in US ) - Francis Tyers · 12:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
List of recommendations:
1) I've found a blurred location that does not seem to be listed, could someone please identify it and add it? It is near Hawthorne, NY. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hawthorne,+ny&ie=UTF8&ll=41.087098,-73.80641&spn=0.003372,0.005504&t=k&z=17&om=1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.116.211.2 ( talk) 08:44, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
2) I see a Plano IL. No mention of the secure site near Plano TX? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.75.129.186 ( talk) 04:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
3) There's another blurred out part in Vlissingen (The Netherlands). It's an ammo depot next to Fort Rammekens. It's located at 51.455591, 3.649135 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.176.82.176 ( talk) 10:25, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
4) Scott Base in Antarctia is obscured according to the google maps location of the base, the wikipedia article does not have any gps coordinates to check this.
5) ITER, Cadarache, France. Site of fusion reactor in low resolution. As seen on 43.699446,5.7507175 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.112.144.241 ( talk) 14:28, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
6) Chateau de Bity, near Correze France, lowered resolution, residence of Jacques Chirac - https://goo.gl/maps/DSmycF3Wjvj — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.92.250.86 ( talk) 14:39, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
43°45'11"N 4°23'33"E blurred out, the Russians are less discreet [14]. -- Hugitobi ( talk) 15:35, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
This article currently has only 14 inline citations (1 of which is a dead link) and 2 external links, while the number of country subsections in the table of contents is 19. This article is severely undersourced, (for example, see the South Korea subsection which makes multiple claims, such as "Every military used land (US and ROK) is altered to show woodland or mountains. Also the nuclear reactor sites and many airports and possibly other civilian infrastructure.", but has no sources listed - not even a link to which reliable, independent source(s) merited its inclusion, or a link to an example in a map). This WP:OR problem was noted in the AfD discussion and the deletion review. In the same discussions (9 years ago, by the way) editors said that references would be added soon (or words to that affect), but now, almost a decade later, it is still undersourced.
Personally I don't think that a link to a location in Google Maps, as the only source for some of the locations in this article - like in this subsection, is acceptable as a source, as it requires interpretation by the reader/editor as to what is displayed in the map image. In the case of the Russia subsection (linked above), it says in the notes for Severnaya Zemlya, a large archipelago off the north coast of Russia, that "All of the major islands have obviously been blurred"; what does "obviously" mean, is it that someone or something has done it for a reason, or that it has been an accident (as in, obviously an accident), or that it is due to some error with the imagery? This is not clear at all. The link provided is to here. As soon as you start trying to explain what the lines are, you are conducting original research, as nothing on the map indicates or explains what it is or why it's there, so by definition, you are doing your own "research" into what it is, whether by conducting actual research or just by using "educated guesses".
I personally think that quite a lot of this article is WP:OR. Reliable, independent sources need to be found. Also, I think the essay Wikipedia:Using maps and similar sources in Wikipedia articles is very useful here, especially the last section #Original research.
The presence of an object on a map is not sufficient by itself to show notability of a subject.
Even maps produced using reliable sources (such as GIS data) can have minor errors as a result of errors in the underlying database ... Minor map errors are common, for that reason any map detail that is key to the article should be confirmed with a separate map from a different publisher. Rarely are map errors notable, even if they have gone uncorrected for decades.
We need to find sources soon, or otherwise I personally think that the unsourced/badly sourced material should be removed, per WP:V: "Any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed and should not be restored without an inline citation to a reliable source. Whether and how quickly material should be initially removed for not having an inline citation to a reliable source depends on the material and the overall state of the article. In some cases, editors may object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references". Nine years is long enough to provide a reliable source. Seagull123 Φ 22:53, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
I recently stumbled upon a heavily pixelated image in Greece. It's pretty obvious it's no error, it's a polygon matching what seems to be a military facility. Unfortunately, I don't have the time (or the skills :) to add it to the list myself. I just thought it would be interesting, since Greece is not on the list. The coordinates are: 36.209391 27.863949 It's on the island of Rhodes, in Greece. Google Maps pixelated it, and Bing Maps shows an image where the ground is (mostly) obscured by clouds. It seems to be a RADAR facility/array. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Razvan mod ( talk • contribs) 20:37, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
I deleted the information about Gabcikovo power plant. The Google maps image is not obscured, or replaced by grass, it is exactly how it in reality is. Just check Google street maps.
188.167.157.203 ( talk) 15:17, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Should I remove the entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kylerschin ( talk • contribs) 15:26, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
Possible blurring of large dry lake named White Sands, to the direct West of Holloman Air Force Base. Entire dry lake appears to be edited to conceal, as there appears to be an extension of Holloman in the area (marked by a red and white water tower) Example of odd effect: http://i.imgur.com/ebRt4cp.png (Holloman to the east) http://i.imgur.com/SoTJL9m.jpg small base extension (dirt road trails off to Holloman AFB) Coordinates: 32°53'25.0"N 106°19'42.1"W Image far above: http://i.imgur.com/cTVZfgL.png?1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolven1 ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Can someone confirm the following is a black fuzzy blob on Google Maps? Other services show a small island here and a few others just South, some of which are also blacked out.
20.909279, -92.221057 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttg512 ( talk • contribs) 15:35, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Ttg512 ( talk) 16:06, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
Confirmed. There's a giant blotch there. I doubt this is a stitching error like many of these could be, that's quite odd. Found another: 14°24'28.7"N 80°15'37.3"W — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolven1 ( talk • contribs) 19:00, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
The gray blur on the southern face of Ama Dablam is clearly a cloud. Look to the east; the horizontal line continues. Clearly what happened is two sections of the map were imaged at different times. The northern face of Ama Dublam and a large region to the north and west were imaged when there a) wasn't a cloud and b) the ground was darker because of the lighting. It's an artifact of compositing and the section should probably be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.243.28.55 ( talk) 04:55, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
Has there been any official word from Google over why they cooperate with governments who want things censored? If it were me I'd put my users' interests first and let governments deal with their own problems. flarn2006 [ u t c] time: 15:50, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
Some appear to be missing such as this building: [15] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:1001:E120:955A:FDE0:9A94:5046 ( talk) 22:53, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Where are all the sources in this article? Poked around Google Earth and Google Maps last night to verify some of the "blurred out"/"altered"/"obscured" images in North America and could only verify the distorted stretch of the US-Mexico border. Everything else seemed to be outdated at best and inaccurate/unverifiable at worst. I fear that this page is one smorgasbord of original research. Thoughts? One two three... 21:31, 3 September 2016 (UTC) The entire point of this is that it's original research. What news agency is going to bother with this? It's nothing big. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wolven1 ( talk • contribs) 18:04, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Google streetview, including photospheres on NW of corfu, and opposite Albanian coast have censored all viewes across the strait. Satellite view, oddly, is pixelating boats in the channel. Bing maps satellite unaffected. Greece and Albanian sides affected 90.69.115.214 ( talk) 19:06, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved, the Opposer's argument is unconvincing as the OR issue is not relevant to RM, and they themselves acknowledge that the article is a list. ( non-admin closure) Iffy★ Chat -- 12:33, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
Satellite map images with missing or unclear data →
List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data – Ultimately this is a list article
Britishfinance (
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15:10, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
The Asia table states: "The entire country of Israel is shown pixelated in all mapping services, including Google maps, ..."
This is manifestly untrue. I looked at Jerusalem in Google Maps not an hour ago, and it's no more pixelated or blurred than my own neighborhood in upstate New York. I can zoom in far enough to see chimneys on the roof tops and individual cars in the street. Moreover, many public facilities are specifically pinpointed and labeled -- e.g., schools, synagogues, shopping centers, restaurants, parks, etc.
The "Israel" entry should be removed from the list. 70.89.176.249 ( talk) 02:46, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
I noticed that the statement saying the White House has been obscured is false. I discovered this when i searched Google maps and it displayed the White House in clear view as well as the address. I have therefore removed "Including the White House"
After looking over the source again it mentions nothing of obscuring images of Washington, therefore i have removed the statement.
On [16] also: westpoint —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.237.56.125 ( talk • contribs)
Please keep entries sorted by coordinates. Thanks.
Nice Remand Prison in France is pixelated, but I couldn't find it on the list here. SonnikuSan ( talk) 16:36, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
A space just north of Brussels Airport is pixelated. Street view is also disabled here. However, as far as I can see this article does not list it. SonnikuSan ( talk) 16:46, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
if you go on google earth pro and go in northern greenland you will find "glitchy" stuff like huge colored rectangles covering the ice and water on northern greenland its not mentioned on the article though — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:E70B:8E00:ECE3:97E5:264B:DE77 ( talk) 03:37, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
I think these glitch patches are not deliberately censored, but rather the result of warping the satellite imagery to fit the Mercator projection of the flat map, and not bothering to use more high def images because there's not much of a point in doing it for somewhere like Greenland. SonnikuSan ( talk) 18:50, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
49.139172, 5.494068 There seems to be a blurred out complex west of the small french village of Châtillon-sous-les-Côtes, in the midst of the forest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spagyr ( talk • contribs) 21:45, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
@ Canterbury Tail: I found a web page that shows the grey rectangle on Rikers island on google maps. Nuretok ( talk) 18:10, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
On Google Earth and Google Earth Pro, Chernobyl at 51°23′21″N 30°05′58″E is a fake image. High resolution geometric towers have been placed on a blurred or false background. Charles Juvon ( talk) 18:49, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
Puig Major is also censored I think but not in the list? GBM ( talk) 14:13, 22 March 2022 (UTC) /info/en/?search=Puig_Major
Multiple military airfields (Pirkkala for example) and naval installations on Hanko are pixelated, yet they are not on this list. Anyone mind adding them? 2001:14BB:A1:3AA6:5D1F:C190:A358:378C ( talk) 14:36, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
Penly Nuclear Power Plant east of Dieppe has been pixelated to cover the majority of the plant. The pixelated section contours to the physical boundaries of the power plant, suggesting it was done on purpose. Coordinates are: 49°58'40.4"N 1°12'33.8"E (49.977881, 1.209388). Wanted to suggest it here rather than edit the page myself because 1) editing the table of locations is like stepping into a time machine to the 1990s; and 2) after I spend my time putting in the new location, some Wikipedia user with nothing better to do will find some excuse buried in the Wikipedia rules as to why they should delete whatever I added in. 68.147.191.145 ( talk) 21:20, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
There are dozens of blacked out areas in the sea north of the Shoalwater Bay military training area, Queensland, Australia in the area of Ripple Island Reef 161.8.238.98 ( talk) 13:31, 26 December 2022 (UTC)