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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I'm not sure what caused that. I happened to have GE open to check distance on the hurricane for another thread and checked. I'm zooming right into the runways at Groom Lake and the facility near Yucca Mountain with no problems?
Originally posted by gariac
reply to post by FosterVS
I think if something were exposed, Google would just blur the area or simply remove the data but not black it out. I suspect the blacked out area is like a place holder. That is, imagery may go in there some day.
If you followed the thread I did on the blacked out area at Edwards, it was not a secretive area at all. So some blacked out areas could be glitches.
Originally posted by gariac
If you look at the blacked out area I posted versus what is blacked out today, the blacked out regions to the east of Groom Lake are no longer blacked out. That may further the theory that the blacked out regions are place holders for new imagery.
According to Google, the NY State office “did some processing (apparently blurring of a sophisticated nature using truncated wavelet transformations) of areas that might be generally described as ‘being on the National Critical Infrastructure Protection List.’,” maintained by the Department of Homeland Security. The effects can be seen here in a close view of the airport boundary.