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Except that it was refreshed in 2017 (per the article itself). What is even the point?

• dudul 8y ago
  Slightly misleading headline and first paragraphs yes, but then they focus on the idea that the location was not refreshed for 8 years and are curious about this gap.
  • romed 8y ago
    I think it is much more likely that the mapreduce shard responsible for updating the tile was stuck for 8 years, than there is a massive government conspiracy to prevent the update.
• notahacker 8y ago
  To be fair to the authors, you have to try quite hard to make the subject of remote sensing image policy and licensing interesting (and I say that as someone who knows people who wrote multiple books on it) Not sure that anyone actually believes that online mapping is an "all seeing eye" though. Without any plausible licensing/security restrictions and despite having updated other parts of their UK dataset far more recently, Google Earth also hasn't updated their image set of my home town in the UK in about 8 years. Unlike Nevada lake beds this has changed quite a bit and better aerial imagery and mapping data would be pretty useful; Google Maps look very odd when it overlays an (incomplete) road network over bare fields. Friends that live on that newish estate advise people to use Apple Maps instead.