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Before and After Shots of Google's Iran Maps
There many places in the world where it is not possible for larger companies to map them. These can be for economic reasons as is the case for Black Rock City (the temporary 40,000 person home for Burning Man). Or for political reasons as is the case for Iran and countries such as China.
Mashhad (Before and After)
Tabriz (Before and After)
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Comments: 6
cti97 [23 June 2009 01:00 AM]
Romania map looks the same as "before" in google maps. I wonder if we need a revolution so that the maps are updated. Yahoo maps have the details for Romania, why not Google ?
Ed French [23 June 2009 01:02 AM]
Given the usefulness of mapping data
to an invading army, I really hope the Iranian security people can't see the identity of the contributors!
Technology Slice [23 June 2009 05:01 AM]
I'm guessing they can't drive their vans around in Iran.
Richard [23 June 2009 10:24 AM]
I'll be impressed when one can "time travel" through street views and satellite imagery.
Gerv [24 June 2009 02:39 AM]
OpenStreetMap has beaten them to the punch in Mashhad: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.2955&lon=59.6038&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF . There are far more roads on the OSM map.
However, OSM obviously doesn't have a volunteer near Tabriz: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=38.0776&lon=46.2869&zoom=13&layers=B000FTF .
W. David Stephenson [24 June 2009 05:05 AM]
Hi, Brady. There's a lot of new interest in my "networked homeland security" strategy, in part because of dramatic examples such as Iran where people are using social media to connect, and in part because of growing power of handheld personal devices & increasing options for social media to harness that power. I'll use this example in speech I'm making to a DHS workshop on Tuesday.THX
-- David