Map Tech: Google Maps, spy enabled.

the_unexplained: So tonight I spied on Area 51. Actually: "So tonight I spied on Area 51. Actually, maybe I should explain a little more, before I lead with such a tempting sentence. If you go to CNN�s website tonight, you will see a story about google�s new map search service. Basically, the company has integrated satellite technology into their map-searching site, and now you can get ACTUAL photographs beamed directly from somewhere in space. This section of the page just launched a day or two ago, and already many people are upset because they feel, for some reason, having satellite mapping software on the web that gives basic users the ability to stare at the roof of someone else�s house is an invasions of privacy (Sheesh, what prudes.) "

I think this is cool technology. I mean imagine all the cool stuff you can see. You can scan central park for people having sex, you can check out all the homeless people in America, you can search for Bigfoot in the pacific northwest and even try to find your lost dog. Or not. Even at it's highest zoom it's impossible to make out even cars, let alone people. Some people are worried about privacy. It's neat but not very good at invading people's privacy, heck I could barely make out Neverland. After some research I also found some of the images are over two years old. Cool it is, a privacy issue it ain't.