Calm down, calm down! Its only google earth...

[marie]

Scouse’s hate google earth… Or does google has Scousers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2005/01/31/voices_scousers_200x150.jpg

Jenny Douglas, planning director of Liverpool Vision, explained: “The current Google Earth images show roofing work still under way at Lime Street train station. This work took place between 2000 and 2001, which means the Google Earth images are at least five years old.

“The city centre has changed dramatically since then. It is important that the millions of people using Google Earth have access to the latest images showing the city’s transformation.”

To add insult to injury, London’s new Wembley Stadium is already available for the Google Earth Community’s viewing pleasure, of which a Google Earth spokeswoman said: “We want to give the best service we can, and it would be wrong to delay updating the London images just because we can’t do that yet for other cities.”

[Cadfael]

I don't see the problem, you can see all you want to see of Liverpool from the top of the Liverpool Cathedral. I'd love to see a Google earth of older pictures of Liverpool showing what we've lost to the JCB and what certain roads used to look like.

[H_Asbo]

Scouse’s hate google earth… Or does google has Scousers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2005/01/31/voices_scousers_200x150.jpg

Jenny Douglas, planning director of Liverpool Vision, explained: “The current Google Earth images show roofing work still under way at Lime Street train station. This work took place between 2000 and 2001, which means the Google Earth images are at least five years old.

“The city centre has changed dramatically since then. It is important that the millions of people using Google Earth have access to the latest images showing the city’s transformation.”

To add insult to injury, London’s new Wembley Stadium is already available for the Google Earth Community’s viewing pleasure, of which a Google Earth spokeswoman said: “We want to give the best service we can, and it would be wrong to delay updating the London images just because we can’t do that yet for other cities.”

Actually I have seen this on American websites and they think we are over reacting, they ( Cities in the States) actually take there own images and upload them to Google, to get them up to date.

If the city wants to update every single day or week or month ( or whatever) all it/we have to do is pay for an Ariel photographer to take the snaps and send it in.

As I already stated some cities in the States pay to get this done, when they want to show off there latest buildings and features, I think I read that the high quality digital images cost about $3000 thats about 1500 quid if anyone wants to put there hand in there pocket.

[Cadfael]

I think we have to be utterly grateful for any programs like this. I know they have been around a few years but people seem to miss the point on these - they are an amazingly detailed and 'real life' photograph in which you can zoom in to each and every building in the world (apart from the unmapped areas). This is just an amazing feat of technology that people seem to take for granted. I don't care if Google Earth is out of date by 10 years or 10 days, it's the fact that I can become a bird for the afternoon and zoom around the entire world in the comfort of my own PC!

[Ged]

I know, you'd think people felt we were legally entitled to them or something.

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi Cadfael and Ged

This does bring up an interesting point about what the maps actually show, whether they are up to date or not, or contain old data. It is useful to know how to interpret them based on how the data for the maps were compiled.

As an aside here in Washington DC we had at my workplace a safety and awareness seminar conducted by the consultants who are in charge of the security for our building. The two guys doing the presentation showed a map that supposedly showed crime in downtown DC and in particular where we are in Washington, DC, southwest which is an area of mainly government office buildings near the Bureau of Engraving, Holocaust Museum and the Washington Monument, as well as parkland round the monuments and along the Potomac. The map showed hardly any crime. But someone in the audience brought up the fact that the statistics used to make up the map were derived from whether the victims of the crime were residents of the area, and of course few people live in this area of DC. Thus if you were a Liverpudlian walking on the street outside my building and you were mugged or worse, you would not show up.

Similarly, I know statistics on births and deaths in England are based on whether you are a resident of the area or parish. Thus again you could be a Liverpudlian in, say, London and you could be mugged or murdered -- but you would not show up in the statistics for that area because the area or parish you belong to was not a London one. So you really have to know what you are dealing with when you consider these arty graphics and statistics. :PDT_Xtremez_12:

Chris