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DIS 19, Fiat Lux: "Just Google It": (as well as issues of Identity and Privacy) |
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VII. Google Earth,
Local, Maps (by Lars and Jens
Rasmussen)
and Street View
as well as Ocean View
a. Potential Presentation Topics: Sensitive, Confidential,
Secret and Top Secret? NASA's
"Interactive Satellite Tracking" is no longer available; why? Discuss
the international perspective on privacy (e.g., why won't Street View be
available anytime soon in Germany or Switzerland?) Using the different
services above, find your home; also, look at Tokyo, Japan, and look for the
"UCLA" logo on top of a major campus building. And, finally what do
you conclude about copyright, ease of use, image source, resolution at
maximum zoom, and true or false color? GPS.GOV's "GPS: Overview of
the Global Positioning System" b c. Justin O’Beirne, “Google Maps’s Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple is Google Maps?
(December 2017) d. Compared to mobile apps such as Waze
or the AOL Mapquest (most popular?)
or Yahoo Maps ("overall
best"), Ask Maps and Directions, Windows Live Local aka Bing Maps,
and RandMcNally.com or the Times Atlas of
the World ; see also SocialCompare’s
“Comparison of
Mapping Servies” e. True or false colors; see "False-color" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False-color
and maximum
resolution per pixel f. Digital Globe's
QuickBird, digital image supplier to Google Earth, but where did GeoEye, the high resolution
image service, go? g. Street View Gallery" and the trespassing issue
(December 2010 h. GPS
navigation systems for phones and cars using the Android OS
and Android; see “Google Was Here,”
NYTimes Magazine, 15 December 2013 (online). i. Mash-ups, using Google's mapping API; take a look at some
examples: en.pediax.org, flood.firetree.net, www.fastfoodmaps.com, www.gmap-pedometer.com j. Issue of surveillance: 1 KGB agent per 486 Soviet citizens; 1 Stasi agent per
166 East German citizens; and 1 CCTV per 14
citizens in London (Wende Museum, November 2011) Revised: 23 January 2018; created: 30 August 2006 |
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