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Dad says Google Maps shows son's dead body
- byoung2 13y agoIf the goal is to prevent people from seeing the image, why go to the local news? Now that the story has been picked up by online media, it will go viral.
- tedivm 13y agoI doubt he cares about other people seeing it. I think he just wants to be able to use Google Maps in his home town without stumbling on his son's corpse.
- BocceBaal 13y agoIt's a little south of the marker on the map in the article, but it is still on Google Maps.
- steven2012 13y agoOkay, ya I just found it as well. It's actually more South-East of the marker, and you have to look for the police car to locate it. I don't think this is an unreasonable request to remove this map tile, it's a pretty clear image of a dead with cops standing nearby.
- jmjerlecki 13y agohttps://maps.google.com/maps?q=Duboce+Ave+%26+Cherry+St,+Richmond,+Contra+Costa+County,+California+94801&hl=en&ll=37.951686,-122.360578&spn=0.000393,0.000477&sll=35.675147,-95.712891&sspn=37.21567,62.490234&t=h&geocode=FZscQwId_OW0-A&hnear=Duboce+Ave+%26+Cherry+St,+Richmond,+Contra+Costa+County,+California+94801&z=21 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Duboce+Ave+%26+Cherry+St,+Ric...
- J_Darnley 13y agoThat's it? What a load of fuss over nothing.
- _nullandnull_ 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy
- jlgreco 13y agoImagine that body was somebody that you loved.
- MiguelHudnandez 13y agoI can empathize, but I would probably ask Google to remove it before going to the news.
- jlgreco 13y agoYeah, that part doesn't make sense to me either. Buuut, I'm not in the father's position, so I'll try to reserve some judgement.
- matthuggins 13y agoThey must have changed it, because I'm not seeing it.
- jimktrains2 13y agoI think you need to be using the 45 deg imagery.
- timmaah 13y agoAnd if you rotate the view point you get 4 different snapshots in time. More police activity. Police activity but no body. And then back to as it was. No activity, no body.
- steven2012 13y agoI would post a link, but I have no idea how to do it with the new Google Maps Beta. Much like everything else they've done recently, they've hidden all the functionality with absolutely no benefit, and exposed utterly useless functionality.
- beering 13y agoThey've "fixed" it so that you just copy and paste the URL to share whatever you're seeing in the map. Yes, in some ways, it's not obvious, but mainly because the "obvious" way of sharing the URL didn't work before.
- rororor 13y agoNext to the tracks: http://i.imgur.com/6XFwOq8.jpg http://i.imgur.com/6XFwOq8.jpg
- magic_haze 13y agoIt's been blurred out now (http://imgur.com/1GcROpY http://imgur.com/1GcROpY). Also, the new maps interface is very unintuitive. I remember there used to be an option to create a shortlink to an exact coordinate: I can't figure out where that is now. There is a 'Save' button, but I think that just saves it to my local machine. How do I share a location?
- sxtxixtxcxh 13y agothat blurry square isn't it, if you travel south for about half a block, you'll see a police car, follow that road forward a bit, and you can see a body, and north of that in the field there is a group of law enforcement. slightly gruesome screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/bnyNZq5.png http://i.imgur.com/bnyNZq5.png
- thearn4 13y agoVery sad. The world is a very big place though, this kind of stuff is bound to come up. I do hope the Maps folks take some action.
- tombrossman 13y agoRight click (option click on Mac?) and select 'What's here'. That gives you exact coordinates under the green arrow, with nearest street address under the pink map pin. In this case it's 37.951592,-122.36045. That may be a 14 year-old boy lying there dead and if true it is a terribly sad thing and I hope it is at least blurred out soon.
- cowsandmilk 13y agoOpened these coordinates in 2 browsers, one shows old low res imagery with no body, one shows newer high res imagery with body. My guess/hope is that the older low res imagery is being pushed out and just isn't on all servers yet. I think the main thing I got out of this story is that Rob Enderle is an ass.
- anonova 13y agoThe url in the address bar now reflects the current state of the map, and that can be shared. This leaves no shortening option, but it can still be done manually at <http://goo.gl/> http://goo.gl/>.
- weslly 13y agoSeems like google just updated the map tiles. I saw it 10 minutes ago but it was gone when I refreshed the page. http://i.imgur.com/VXCTQ17.png http://i.imgur.com/VXCTQ17.png
- thekevan 13y agoIt appears when you use the 45 degree angle option but not the top down satellite option.
- beat 13y agoSo, has Google actually refused to remove the image? Or just not moved fast enough?
- toomuchtodo 13y ago"Barrera said he plans to formally complain to Google and to lobby state lawmakers for their help in removing the image." Don't believe he's actually asked Google yet to take it down.
- ajross 13y agoYet he's talked to CNN. I'm willing to bet the causality here went the other way. The reporter got a tip about a murder scene (or whatever it was) on google maps, did a little digging to figure out who it was, called the folks involved, and ran with the first lede that would draw links.
- dethstar 13y ago"Google says it will replace a Google Maps image after a California father complained it shows the body of his teen-age son, who was shot to death in 2009." Maybe he didn't know how to reach someone in Google? I don't know, why does that matter?
- calinet6 13y agoPretty amazing that something like this is basically a statistical certainty with the amount of imagery we generate of the world.
- leeoniya 13y agoi would say "rather unamazing"
- thpoul 13y agoReally sad picture. I hope google removes it.
- jolohaga 13y agoVery sad. I feel for the father.
- briandoll 13y agoSuper sad situation, but this is a classic Streisand effect in the making. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
- baddox 13y agoIt sounds like the father's reason for requesting the removal is that it causes him grief, not that he wants fewer people to see it.
- bitcrusher 13y agoIs that a popular place for bodies? I swear I can see a body at street level here: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-122.36136!3d37.952679!2m2!1f153.52!2f83.12!4f17.39!2m7!1e1!2m2!1sPPglZN1tBgX5S7ZIu1dLSQ!2e0!5m2!1sPPglZN1tBgX5S7ZIu1dLSQ!2e0&fid=5 https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!1m8!1m3!1d3!2d-12...
- msellout 13y agoThe area appears to have a high murder rate, as mentioned in some other news articles.
- aaron695 13y agoGiven Google blurs peoples faces, I suspect they are quite happy to blur / remove dead bodies. So not sure what the real issue is here? Has he actually asked for it to be removed?
- emhart 13y agoCurrent first line: "Google says it will replace a Google Maps image after a California father complained it shows the body of his teen-age son, who was shot to death in 2009." EDIT: To remove my own snark as I realized the article was updated. Sorry!
- ryansan 13y agoI used to live in this area several years ago. It's really quite a rough area with plenty of shootings and stray bullets to go around. These stories cropped up all the time. I remember discovering at one point that the crime in Richmond was worse than Compton. Not sure if it's still true or not.
- jamesbritt 13y agoSome stats: http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/richmond/crime/ http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/richmond/crime/
- tricky 13y agoHad the satellite flown over earlier this headline might have said 'google maps helps solve murder case' so sad.
- kimonos 13y agoI understand the sentiment of the father.. I think it is appropriate for Google to remove it..