Google Re-Victimizes Katrina Victims

• March 31, 2007

How dare Google disrespect the memory of the tragedy and suffering the Katrina Victims^TM went through by replacing the satellite imagery of flooded New Orleans in their map system with satellite imagery that is actually usable to people trying to use Google Maps as the sort of navigation and location tool it was intended to be!
Because it’s not like Google has made that sort of Katrina imagery available to internet users anywhere else on their vast, insidious network of websites.
I, for one, am so glad my tax dollars are being spent on this important mission for respect and dignity. Because goodness knows that if we can’t find the Katrina flood waters on Google Maps we might forget that the hurricane ever happened and not be so willing to send billions upon billions of our tax dollars down to New Orleans after the hundreds of billions of dollars we’ve already sent so that the Katrina Victims^TM can live in a permanent state of subsidized victimhood for decades to come.

Tags: Asshats, Politics, Technology, The Loony Left

http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

AND the Republican one!
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Ellinas, Noah’s descendents are the taxpayers.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Caves and Tree Houses don’t show up very good on satellite imagery.
http://www.dartemis.net/blog/ sayanything-42

I have so “moved on” from Katrina.

Out Here
Rodney Graves
rodney.g.graves@gmail.com
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Flamer, any chance you could point out what would happen if the Earth were to be swallowed by a giant lizard?
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

That’s not funny!… I live in a very nice trailer. HA!
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Me too, Rodney. BUT there are still many who have not. The other day my husband & I heard someone suggest making a donation to the Katrina victims! We had been there & done that. No thank you!
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

HAHHHHHHHHAaaaaa! Oh my gosh it really does look like the Clinton Library! Oh my gosh that is too funny!
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

No he would have been portrayed as “being in the way”. He wasn’t suffering.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Yes I know all about you folks down South.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Hhhhhahaha! Oh my gosh…You are such a brat!

We’re going to have a lot more fun around here when Rob’s gone.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Oh my gosh!!!! That is too funny and sad and sickening and eeeeeeooooouw! Yuck!
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

YA! BUT what are we going to do without your Babs collection? Memories or is that Memweees?
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Sounds like a run of the mill global warming activist to me.

Maybe he got kicked out of the green party for not being nutty enough. Otherwise he’d seem to fit right in.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

2Hotel…I have often asked that same question about Congress. It is what they do…
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Also reminds me of what the Red Cross did with money donated to directly help out those who had family members murdered on 9/11/01.

They did that back in 97 too. They used the GF flood to raise money but it never did come to the area.
2Hotel9

Gang, back to the images of NO for a moment. I just spent 40 minutes going over the images for New Orleans currently available as the default at google earth. I scanned from north to south and south to north, moving west to east. St. Charles to Poydras. From the Lake to a line crossing south of Estelle and Belle Chase. And this mosaic is made up of images that have got to be covering a 5 year period, and mixed from every season of the year. I did 3 sweeps, 1 at 30,000, 1 at 10,000, and 1 at 5,000 feet altitude. There is damage clearly visible and the line between successive passes showing green trees and no damage.

Now, my very easy, simple question is, WHY THE FUCK IS A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE PISSING AWAY MONEY AND TIME CRYING ABOUT THIS STUPID SHIT?!?!?!!?

And E, if you want up to date images of the family home in Greece, you have to talk to the government of Greece. They have had a rigid policy of not releasing such images to public access since the late ’70s. Like many other countries have. ANd like India just imposed.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

As long as I can keep my Cher collection.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

I actually saw Sonny & Cher in Las Vegas when I was 10 years old. Wilt Chamberlin was in the audience & they asked him to stand up. His legs were so long!
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Hhhhhahaha! Oh my gosh…You are such a brat!
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Ten years after the flood we still have people that can’t get over it.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Sonny was always the talented one.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

I hope you have the keys already, because if he sees you have been holding out with your Cher collection he might try to pull something? I know I would.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

That one trailer looks just like the Clinton library.
ellinas

Google is right to update their imagery/maps to reflect curent reality.
Rob is doing a disservice by not disclosing and/or avoiding to point that the maps/images in question are pre Katrina.
2Hotel9

google is not using pre-Katrina images. They have updated with post-Katrina images where available. And all the other images are still available, they were not erased from all records and caches. They do not do high resolution imaging for the entire planet, just certain sections.

The point Rob is facetiously addressing is that some people are complaining that when they search New Orleans at googlearth and googlemaps they are not getting images of flooded NO, they are getting current images, and are too lazy to search by date for the flood images. The flooding is over, has been for a year and a half. google, along with other sat image services no longer show flood images as their default. They are showing current imaging, where available. Certain people are complaining about that. I complained to googlearth because they were not updating images faster.
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

ellinas…I beg to differ on the google imagery maps. Our house is almost 3 years old & it is still not on the Google maps…
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

the Clinton library.

You mean the Bridge to Nowhere? I’ve seen it! It’s a joke!
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

goon…I have some friends who worked in the galleria & they said the Katrina victims were buying designer handbags for around $1700. Kinda makes you sick when you hear things like that. Especially when you have just donated money, clothes, school supplies, food etc. What a mess the Katrina’s havoced on Houston’s crime rate? They would set fire to apartment buildings when eviction notices were issued… Hmmm. What lesson did we learn from the Katrina’s?
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Do you suppose IF the President had gone to Louisianna immediately after the hurricane & posed like Bill Clinton, Bush would have been portrayed as the night in shining armor?
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Do you suppose IF the President had gone to Louisianna immediately after the hurricane & posed like Bill Clinton, Bush would have been portrayed as the night in shining armor?

No because of their undying hate for George W. Bush.
I want to know how much money do they need? I have heard we gave the victims they atm cards after the Huricane and they ended up using them for Stripper and other things not related to flood recovery.
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Hot Rod: LOL
http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

Yep! You are right. Plus Katrina was GW Bush’s fault.
ellinas

Ten years after the flood we still have people that can’t get over it.
The Whistler on March 31, 2007 at 08:06 am

A few thousand years(?) after Noahs flood we still have people that can’t get over it.
God proclaimed: “You’re doing a heck of a job Browney”
Noahs descendants to date get billions of dollars from the US taxpayer, and untold billions from donations.
http://manoffireandlight.blog.co.uk/ ManofFireandLight

You’d have to ask David Icke about anything pertaining to lizards.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

Also reminds me of what the Red Cross did with money donated to directly help out those who had family members murdered on 9/11/01. The cowards and bastards (I quote from the headlines of a newspaper at the time). These people have played the “victim” for their entire lives. They are parasites to society.
http://manoffireandlight.blog.co.uk/ ManofFireandLight

The people complaining about this are the kind of people who want to use it as a bargaining chip to oust the Republicans at the next election. The kind of people who only moan about the past and aren’t willing to address future issues. Unfortunately, it seems to me, that is how most people vote – to get rid of people/parties they don’t like, rather than to bring in those who will work for a better future, imo, lower taxes and more personal freedom.

If you want potential flood images go here.
Some dude has used google maps and projected potential sea-level rises up to 7m. Not really relevant to the point though.
ellinas

ellinas…I beg to differ on the google imagery maps. Our house is almost 3 years old & it is still not on the Google maps…
Zsa Zsa on April 1, 2007 at 02:53 pm

Differ all you want. Don’t beg. My family house in Greece was built in 1980. Still not on the Google map. If google had flood images/maps the next logical step in upgrading would have been how it is today and not pre Katrina.
Seth Williams

A quibble Rob: wouldn’t the pre-Katrina images be less useful since they show numerous features that simply don’t exist anymore?

Your larger points vis-a-vis government nanny-statism, etc are well taken.
2Hotel9

Seth, you can still get all the NO flood images, both photo and satellite, from googlemaps,googlearth, and googleimages. They just updated their current images files. Like they do at the end of March and September every year.
Seth Williams

That’s not my point 2H9. My point is simple (and a mere quibble, really): Rob seems to indicate that the pre flood images are more useful. I question whether that is truly the case.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

…if he sees you have been holding out with your Cher collection…

C’mon, Zsa Zsa! Cher and Cher alike!
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

Seth:

A quibble Rob: wouldn’t the pre-Katrina images be less useful since they show numerous features that simply don’t exist anymore?

Well, for people trying to find directions I suspect the non-flood imagery would be more useful than imagery of just water and trees and flooded houses.

One would hope that Google would soon be updating their satellite imagery to reflect what’s there now, but ultimately they have a duty to their customers to provide the most helpful imagery they have available. Imagery that shows streets, most of which I assume are still probably there.

Plus, Google has the Katrina flood images available if anyone wants to see them.

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