Australia, 03 April 2007: Following criticism that it had by loading pre-Hurricane Katrina images of New Orleans and surrounding areas, Google has updated its Google Earth service with new high resolution images showing the city in its current state.
According to John Hanke, director of Google Maps/Local/Earth, told, what happened when volunteers at the company moved quickly to provide post-Katrina images in Google Maps and Google Earth.
Last September, those images were “replaced with pre-Katrina aerial photography of much higher resolution as part of a regular series of global data enhancements.” The post-hurricane images and associated data were preserved on the Google Earth web site for ongoing use.
This incident, along with protests from various governments about the coverage of military sites and other sensitive locations, illustrates the growing use and attention given to Google Earth.
