The company claimed not to have blurred satellite imagery of Russia’s infrastructure.
Google Maps would he have chosen his site? This is claimed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, who announce that the company has defaced certain satellite images showing Russian military installations. A posting from Monday can be found on his Twitter account, which reads: “Google Maps access to Russia’s military and strategic installations,” adding that “now everyone can see a multitude of Russian launch vehicles, ICBMs, command posts and secret dumps with a resolution of ‘approximately 0.5 meters per pixel’.
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Тепер кожен може побачити різноманітні російські пускові установки, шахти міжконтинентальних балістичних ракет, командні пункти та секретні полігони з роздільною здатністю близько до 0.5 метра на піксель. pic.twitter.com/i75wR8Efwo— Armed Forces \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@ArmedForcesUkr) April 18, 2022
An infox after Google Maps, forced to react to the rapid dissemination of information. This was announced by the global online map service“no fuzzy edits” was brought to his satellite imagery in Russia in response to a tweet.
Hello, please note that we have not made any blurry edits to our satellite imagery in Russia.
—Google Maps (@googlemaps) April 18, 2022
Not so secret pictures
According to the American site The Verge, at least one of the images shared by the Ukrainian Twitter account is actually from Google Maps. It shows ships and submarines stationed there Krasheninnikov Bayin eastern Russia, 7500 km from Kyiv.
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But as BFMTV has seen, the same coordinates apply to blurry images on Google Earth as well as to Yandex, the Russian equivalent of the American map service, which is tightly controlled by the authorities. We also find, without blurring, satellite images of Russian submarines, suggesting that these images are not perceived as particularly sensitive.
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