French censored answer to Google Earth.
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From: Stanislas de Kertanguy on 25 Jul 2006 20:08 Mxsmanic avait nonc : > Gregory Morrow writes: > >> Does this site also display the French penchant for Flash...??? > > No, thank goodness. Don't give them any ideas. But you said that the French can't design a website without Flash. It seems you should reconsider this statement. -- remplacez "lesptt" par "laposte" pour me joindre substitute "laposte" for "lesptt" to reach me
From: Mxsmanic on 26 Jul 2006 01:34 Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > But you said that the French can't design a website without Flash. Maybe they hired designers from abroad. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 26 Jul 2006 01:38 Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > You know, not every French lives in Paris. Every French what? > 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. Ah, so Goportail has a secret database of ultra-high-resolution images, and deliberately blurs them so that every square metre of France looks like it was last photographed in 1952? > And the images they use are not satellite ones, and they are true > color. So they _were_ photographed in 1952! And I saw the very crude masking of some seaside facility in Le Havre. I can't believe people are still doing that. Perhaps France is still doing aerial photography from biplanes, but the bad guys have satellites now, and the best satellites now can read your wristwatch from altitude. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 26 Jul 2006 01:38 Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > What is the link between cryptography and the free press ? Both have been hindered by the military. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Gregory Morrow on 26 Jul 2006 02:42
Mxsmanic wrote: > Stanislas de Kertanguy writes: > > > You know, not every French lives in Paris. > > Every French what? > > > Géoportail 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. > > Ah, so Géoportail has a secret database of ultra-high-resolution > images, and deliberately blurs them so that every square metre of > France looks like it was last photographed in 1952? > > > And the images they use are not satellite ones, and they are true > > color. > > So they _were_ photographed in 1952! > > And I saw the very crude masking of some seaside facility in Le Havre. > I can't believe people are still doing that. Perhaps France is still > doing aerial photography from biplanes, but the bad guys have > satellites now, and the best satellites now can read your wristwatch > from altitude. Heh. Reminds me of those photography restrictions that used to exist when flying in commercial passenger craft above East Bloc countries...yeah, that hazy pic I took on that flight between Prague and East Berlin SURE was going to mark me as a NATO spy! -- Best Greg |