new jersey geographer » Government http://njgeo.org GIS and planning in New Jersey Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:50:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The “Danger” of Creative Commons http://njgeo.org/2010/08/30/the-danger-of-creative-commons/ http://njgeo.org/2010/08/30/the-danger-of-creative-commons/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:58:17 +0000 John Reiser http://njgeo.org/?p=405 Continue reading →]]> Creative Commons logoBeing that I’m a planning and transit buff, I take a lot of pictures of urban spaces and infrastructure for use in my planning work. I post many of the pictures to Flickr, as the site’s a great service and it supports geotagged photos taken with my GPS camera. With the exception of pictures of family and friends, all of my pictures are public and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, Share Alike license. This allows anyone to use my photographs for most uses, explicitly non-commercial use, provided they note that I am the source of the image. Well, what happens when someone you disagree with uses that image to promote his or her agenda? What if that person is Senator John McCain?

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]]> http://njgeo.org/2010/08/30/the-danger-of-creative-commons/feed/ 1 Ogle Earth on redaction of images from Google http://njgeo.org/2009/02/23/ogle-earth-on-redaction-of-images-from-google/ http://njgeo.org/2009/02/23/ogle-earth-on-redaction-of-images-from-google/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:07:44 +0000 John Reiser http://njgeo.org/?p=105 Continue reading →]]> Today, Ogle Earth has posted an excellent article on images from Google Earth that have gone missing. The imagery is of an area in Pakistan. Apparently Dianne Feinstein commented that the US military has been using a base in Pakistan for the staging and deployment of unmanned drones. This comment precipitated a chain reaction of reissued statements and denials. The images in question showed aircraft similar to those of the Predator drones. This image has since been removed from Google Earth and DigitalGlobe.

Ogle Earth sums up the issue quite well:

Did both Google and DigitalGlobe separately receive a request from a government (presumably the US, but possibly Pakistan) to remove this imagery from public scrutiny, and comply, or is there a contractual obligation/legal obligation on the part of Google to remove imagery from Google Earth if DigitalGlobe removes it from its product list? Did DigitalGlobe make a mistake in publishing the 2006 imagery available in the first place, considering that the US military has “shutter control” of the satellite’s cameras? Or perhaps (and I’m merely speculating), since the Predator drone operations are run by the CIA and not the US military, were shutter control orders somehow not properly relayed via the usual channels?

I’d love to find out exactly why the images were pulled. Once they’ve made the rounds, it’s almost pointless to remove them. Haven’t we learned from the Streisand Effect?

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]]> http://njgeo.org/2009/02/23/ogle-earth-on-redaction-of-images-from-google/feed/ 0 OPRA Task Force Meeting July 18 in Trenton http://njgeo.org/2008/07/11/opra-task-force-meeting-july-18-in-trenton/ http://njgeo.org/2008/07/11/opra-task-force-meeting-july-18-in-trenton/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:36:25 +0000 John Reiser http://njgeo.org/?p=11 Continue reading →]]> New Jersey Geospatial Forum‘s OPRA Task Force will be hosting a meeting with Government Records Council Executive Director Catherine Starghill. The meeting will take place at the Department of Community Affairs on Friday, July 18th at 10am.

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]]> http://njgeo.org/2008/07/11/opra-task-force-meeting-july-18-in-trenton/feed/ 0 Virtual Earth looking to partner for data http://njgeo.org/2008/06/24/virtual-earth-looking-to-partner-for-data/ http://njgeo.org/2008/06/24/virtual-earth-looking-to-partner-for-data/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:36:41 +0000 John Reiser http://njgeo.org/?p=6 Continue reading →]]> Virtual Earth is looking to partner with state and local governments to share geospatial data, specifically aerial photography.

From their announcement:

Why should we publish our imagery in VE?

GoVE supports the data sharing goals of many public sector organizations by providing a free publishing service. Through GoVE, your taxpayer-funded information will be provided on a free, open access web site that benefits taxpayers, government officials, your corporate tax base, state and local governments, etc.

You can read more about it at the Virtual Earth blog.

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