French censored answer to Google Earth.
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From: Mxsmanic on 25 Jul 2006 17:59 Gregory Morrow writes: > Are the roofs of the White House and it's directly - adjoining > buildings blanked - out...??? Some of the roof area on the White House has been retouched on Google Maps. It's not a very good job. I just tried Geoportail; the image quality is almost unusably poor, and looks like a sick joke compared to Google Maps. And this is for the center of Paris! The site is also designed more poorly and the response time is worse. If they can't do it right, why don't they just give up? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Gregory Morrow on 25 Jul 2006 19:30 Mxsmanic wrote: > Gregory Morrow writes: > > > Are the roofs of the White House and it's directly - adjoining > > buildings blanked - out...??? > > Some of the roof area on the White House has been retouched on Google > Maps. It's not a very good job. > > I just tried Geoportail; the image quality is almost unusably poor, > and looks like a sick joke compared to Google Maps. And this is for > the center of Paris! The site is also designed more poorly and the > response time is worse. If they can't do it right, why don't they > just give up? Does this site also display the French penchant for Flash...??? -- Best Greg
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 25 Jul 2006 20:03 Mxsmanic a mis l'ide suivante : > I just tried Geoportail; the image quality is almost unusably poor, > and looks like a sick joke compared to Google Maps. And this is for > the center of Paris! Try with Argenton-sur-Creuse, or Pont-l'Evque (in the Calvados dept) .... You know, not every French lives in Paris. Goportail was designed to have an equal image quality throughout France, to the Louvre pyramid to the smallest villages in the Morvan. Of course, when you compare big cities, Google Earth wins by far. And the images they use are not satellite ones, and they are true color. -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 25 Jul 2006 20:04 Mxsmanic avait nonc : > Martin writes: > >> Unlike the USA? > > Unlike the USA, yes. Look at the sad state of cryptography in France, > due in large part to the military. What is the link between cryptography and the free press ? -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Mxsmanic on 25 Jul 2006 20:05
Gregory Morrow writes: > Does this site also display the French penchant for Flash...??? No, thank goodness. Don't give them any ideas. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |