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Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [1] For example, Westchester County, New York asked Google to blur potential terrorism targets (such as an amusement park, a beach, and parking lots) from its satellite ...
Wasp Island, the only island in Durras Inlet near Batemans Bay [4] Wedding Cake Island, a small island off the coast of Coogee; Windang Island, a small island at the entrance to Lake Illawarra; Woodford Island, in the Clarence River immediately upstream of Maclean; Yellow Rock Island, at junction of Bellinger and Kalang Rivers near Urunga
The island gained wide media and public attention in November 2012 when the R/V Southern Surveyor, an Australian research ship, [2] passed through the area and "undiscovered" it. The island was quickly removed from many maps and data sets, including those of the National Geographic Society and Google Maps. [3]
The map in the board game Risk includes Australia, but not Tasmania. Australian athletes at the 1956 Summer Olympics, held in Melbourne, wore tracksuits that featured a map of Australia excluding Tasmania. [4] In 2000 the island was left off the Australian map in some of the official literature for the Sydney Olympics. [5]
Satellite image of Ashmore reef on 26 August 2021. The Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands [2] is an uninhabited Australian external territory [3] consisting of four low-lying tropical islands in two separate reefs (Ashmore and Cartier), as well as the 12-nautical-mile (22 km; 14 mi) territorial sea generated by the islands. [4]
Aerial photograph of Rat Island (Easter Group). The Houtman Abrolhos (often called the Abrolhos Islands) is a chain of 122 islands and associated coral reefs in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Geraldton, Western Australia.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Shag Island (South Australia) Shag Rock (Houtman Abrolhos) The Skerries (Victoria) Smith Island (South Australia) Smooth Island (South Australia) South Island (South Australia) Spilsby Island; St Andrew Island; Storr Island