Since the earliest days of Google Maps a big multi-colored circle has obscured a business office of Noordwijk aan Zee inwards the Netherlands. It isn't the entirely location inwards the footing which is hidden on Google's satellite imagery. However no ane seems to know why Google is too hence smashing to censor what appears to live on merely a normal Dutch residential neighborhood inwards Noordrwijk aan Zee. No other online map service censors the expanse too fifty-fifty on Google Maps yous tin walk roughly the neighborhood on Street View.
Back inwards 2006 this Dutch website suggested that the expanse was censored on Google Maps because a liquid fuel pipeline had in ane trial run through the area. However the pipeline was removed from the expanse a real long fourth dimension agone (before Google Maps fifty-fifty started).
Another argue why this censorship inwards the Netherlands is too hence foreign is because it is real unsubtle. Anyone looking at the expanse on Google Maps tin live on inwards no dubiety that Google is trying to enshroud something here. Google is non commonly too hence unsubtle when hiding locations on Google Maps.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 slightly to a greater extent than nuanced way to enshroud locations on satellite maps is past times blurring the image. For instance this edifice inwards Greece appears to accept been intentionally blurred out on Google Maps. An fifty-fifty to a greater extent than subtle approach is to purpose a lower resolution ikon for censored locations. This French prison appears inwards lower resolution on Google Maps compared to the expanse roughly the prison. The depression resolution imagery agency that the casual user may non live on aware of Google's censorship spell at the same fourth dimension successfully obscuring whatever details inwards the prison.
Even to a greater extent than subtle is to purpose older satellite imagery to enshroud novel constructions or additions to locations. For example, it is believed that an older satellite ikon of this Irish prison has been superimposed on overstep of newer satellite imagery on Google Maps. If yous expect closely roughly the boundary wall of the prison theatre it does appear that unlike images accept been stitched together here.
Wikipedia maintains a useful listing of Satellite map images amongst missing or unclear data. The listing keeps rails of locations which are censored on the nearly pop satellite map services. It has also mapped these locations too hence that yous tin sentiment the results of this censorship for yourself.
