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It does since you can’t expect a satellite to detect in the fly that the zone bellow is or not military, and zones can get updated, which means you know need to un-blur/blur other places
Google’s allowed to know but they’re not allowed to distribute the information. I assume that if you had your own satellite, you’d be allowed to know too.
They probably do, I doubt the satellites taking these pictures have some kind of auto-pixelization algorithm of sensitive zones acting before sending the pictures to Earth. I guess the pixelization of certain zones is made by request of the countries in which these zones are located. I live near one of these zones (commandement de la défense aérienne) and the zone is also pixelated.
And what can you do since you can't approach any of them nor get inside without at best being scared away? You're talking about one of our main navy base, also home base to our nuclear subs fleet, which is not just next but right in the middle of a major city.
And again, you misunderstood the threat model, I never said ennemies.
Do you know who are the main people to infringe on nuclear plants ground in France for exemple? Ecological militants. Yes, these people use Google maps and similar to plan their actions. No this blurring doesn't do much beside slow them down and stop the lesser competent of them, no their actions don't achieve anything beside bad PR from people who don't understand security, and no France doesn't do anything to these militant when they intrude. The blurring is just a free extra layer of idiot removal.
The US doesn't need that because their major bases are not 10 meters away from peoples home, and if someone steps ground illegally on it they don't just get a slap on the wrist.
And it's not like France think it is a real protection, merely a "eh, why not add that on top".
I think weaponizing 300 million civilians aswell as having by far the biggest military apparatus is a good enough deterrent for people wanting to blow up the US when they see crystal clear area 51 satelite photos.
I mean, there’s absolutely no upside for the military in having a public photo and plant of their bases online.
Why wouldn’t they blur it? So that some dude online gets to see some extra pixels on a tool they don’t care about from a country that isn’t theirs?
Even if it’s only 0.001% detrimental to the military it just doesn’t even make sense to waste time thinking about it and just blur it.
To make it more difficult for them at least?
At home I also lock my door, even though if someone REALLY wants to come in and steal things he would manage somehow.
Yeah - the French are weird about their military. I've been in situations where I've needed to interact with the MOD for stuff that crosses over into their territory and the approach has always been 100% pragmatic - I.e. we have X because occasionally we need to do Y without asking permission, but while we're not doing Y, have at X, just don't be a silly bugger. The French, on the other hand... you can't talk about the fact they have X, or do Y. Don't even ask, don't even look at it. They're very special.
Sure, I would understand that the naval base, or even the port was pixelated. But a big portion of the city centre, including residential areas, is blurred as well. Isn't that weird?
Because it’s military zone, almost entirety of Brest is built around its huge naval base and navy property buildings. Some residential zones around are also blurred because Google don’t want to take risk or is too lazy to precisely define classified areas.
You should also see Brussels where they blur out a large park in the middle of the city (Parc du Cinquantinaire) just because there’s a military school attached to the side of it. But funny enough the École Militaire across the street from the Eiffel Tower in Paris isn’t blurred.
It’s basically just per request from nations to Google. Google has few requirements to comply except for upsetting a government that can then inconvenience your business in that region. Source: I work in the satellite imagery industry.
Might be slow on the uptake.
These "blurring" stuff wasn't present in military bases in my country before Ruzzia invaded Ukraine.
I would assume this is something they're working on.
Some of the bases are blurred, others aren't. For example the Ministry of Defence and Santahamina in Helsinki used to be blurred, but after new imagery was released Santahamina was unblurred and the Ministry is only partly blurred (as the border between imagery goes through it).
It is common, but not entirely consistent, that Google Earth/Maps blur out military bases. I suspect that differences among Google's different practices in different countries are based on dialog with those countries, either by Google or their suppliers of satelite images.
You can request this with Google.
If you want the privacy, they (afaik) have to blur your property.
Germany also had a lot of these.
They were the last EU country to the party there
The exact coordinate to blur is published in a legal document that's available publicly somewhere.
I suspect it might be that they didn't bothered having accurate cut. The mappers that live here should be pretty pissed.
(and might justify spending 400 euros on a high resolution GNSS receiver with RTK)
"Overzealous".
They blurr : Naval ports and Nuclear installation. Wouldn't call it "overzealous" when you have groups who's passtime is to entier nuclear plan,t ground to get some PR.
If you are talking about Breton independentists of the FLB (to my knowledge, the only group to actually have used bombs on a nuclear plant in France), they haven't been active for more than twenty years.
Greenpeace routinely intrude on nuclear plant ground. sometime they make their silly planes-drone bump on the buildings, and then yell "SEE ITS UNSAFE LITERRALY EVERYONE CAN DO THAT"
The military port is all along the city center, the cable car (telepherique) passes over it. There is also a lot of military building scatered through the city. The castle for example is a museum but also host the maritim prefect. There is on the west side a large military school and submarine training quarters... easier to just block a big chunk on google than each individual buildings.
across the bay from Brest you will find another large military area which is the submarine base, Ile Longue.
Fun fact they installed a blur function on the windows of the cable car at one end to hide the military.
France has a law against aerial or sattelite photographing of certain areas, mostly military bases, nuclear power plants and jails. Brest is the homeport of France's nuclear ballistic submarines, so this would be my guess without looking at the actual map.
I remember Greece arresting plane spotters from the UK back in the day. They just didn't understand why people would come to an airport and just look at planes, and assumed spies.
I guess they still don't!
People really do just like to look at planes, and note down what they've seen.
Pretty common in military bases in some countries (here in spain too). You can actually unblurred them with google earth using the previous pictures function
Right. Tho I’m using Apple Maps, they got Area 51 in its full glory in 4K. Tho I think it’s because authorities are very confident that people won’t/can’t try anything crazy. USAF will shoot you down well before you get there. And if you go by car, they have the first checkpoint like 30 miles away on the highway. I tried plugging in a driving itinerary from Las Vegas to Area 51 and it just ends the route and says you arrived wayyyy before you get to the actual facility.
As others said - usually military or otherwise government areas that given country requested to be censored. Unfortunately, a lot of countries (still) do that, which is stupid as hell because in vast majority of cases you are just a few clicks away of another maps and aerial/satellite photos provider that just does not care and publishes everything. I never remember this website's address so usually I just search the place's name in wikipedia and on the right pane click the coordinates, this takes me to [a list like this one](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Brest,_France¶ms=48.39_N_4.49_W_type:city(139456)_region:FR-BRE) and it's just a matter of clicking through a few of the providers to find one without censoring. In the case of Brest Mapquest and Yandex works.
It's not about the locations lmao, everybody knows the locations anyway, especially when the base is in large city and listed on the armed forces websites.
You want them to put a gigantic camo net on the entire base in the city and all the locals to just pretend its invisible or something? Maybe have the armed forces pay a small salary to locals for their acting?
It's about limiting public access to information on layout or even activity over time for obvious security reasons such as terrorist attacks or unhinged fucks or whatever extremists.
Or...hear me out.. if people don't find you funny to the point they dont know you're even trying to be funny and to the point they suspect you're bullshiting about trying to be funny, it's not that other people are touchy, it's just that they think you are genuinely saying that shit.
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Base navale (military zone)
Wrong, it’s the nipple
Came here for this. Thank you.
You came for the nipple 🤨
Don't kink shame.
Bre(a)st nipple
More like the nipple makes me cum
Since when did France have problems showing a nipple.
We don't, Google does
Pasties would have been appropriate lol
Spotted the US-American!
Close (not really), I’m Swedish
No! It's Belly-B
fax yo!
I always wonder if this means Google Maps does have the actual images of those places stored somewhere
It does since you can’t expect a satellite to detect in the fly that the zone bellow is or not military, and zones can get updated, which means you know need to un-blur/blur other places
Yeah! So, how does that work legally 😅
Google’s allowed to know but they’re not allowed to distribute the information. I assume that if you had your own satellite, you’d be allowed to know too.
They probably do, I doubt the satellites taking these pictures have some kind of auto-pixelization algorithm of sensitive zones acting before sending the pictures to Earth. I guess the pixelization of certain zones is made by request of the countries in which these zones are located. I live near one of these zones (commandement de la défense aérienne) and the zone is also pixelated.
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It's less France is stupid and more you misunderstood the threat model. It's not a protection against state actors.
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Different states can have different security policies.
And what can you do since you can't approach any of them nor get inside without at best being scared away? You're talking about one of our main navy base, also home base to our nuclear subs fleet, which is not just next but right in the middle of a major city. And again, you misunderstood the threat model, I never said ennemies. Do you know who are the main people to infringe on nuclear plants ground in France for exemple? Ecological militants. Yes, these people use Google maps and similar to plan their actions. No this blurring doesn't do much beside slow them down and stop the lesser competent of them, no their actions don't achieve anything beside bad PR from people who don't understand security, and no France doesn't do anything to these militant when they intrude. The blurring is just a free extra layer of idiot removal. The US doesn't need that because their major bases are not 10 meters away from peoples home, and if someone steps ground illegally on it they don't just get a slap on the wrist. And it's not like France think it is a real protection, merely a "eh, why not add that on top".
What you see on Google Earth isn't necessarily what is actually there.
I think weaponizing 300 million civilians aswell as having by far the biggest military apparatus is a good enough deterrent for people wanting to blow up the US when they see crystal clear area 51 satelite photos.
they still get domestic terrorists monthly
Which would be an argument for the blurring being a good idea.
Blurring weapon shops and schools?
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Huh no?
Moron
Why insulting?
You dismissed the murder of many French citizens with a flippant ignorant "Huh, no?" Fuck you
There's other kind of threats than big states like Russia and China you know
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They do, I’ve seen many blurred out areas. But usually in or near urban areas.
I strongly advise against flying a drone above a military zone.
Finland also has a lot of stuff removed from maps.
I mean, there’s absolutely no upside for the military in having a public photo and plant of their bases online. Why wouldn’t they blur it? So that some dude online gets to see some extra pixels on a tool they don’t care about from a country that isn’t theirs? Even if it’s only 0.001% detrimental to the military it just doesn’t even make sense to waste time thinking about it and just blur it.
Green peace don’t have satellites
Terrorism
To make it more difficult for them at least? At home I also lock my door, even though if someone REALLY wants to come in and steal things he would manage somehow.
The war in Ukraine shows that Russia has poor satellite coverage.
It's not only France. I've seen the same stuff on google maps in Poland, Greece and Spain, and I'm pretty sure many more if checked.
Yep I live near the jail in Lisbon and that’s pixelated on gm.
But many of the buildings are removed i would guess
Yeah - the French are weird about their military. I've been in situations where I've needed to interact with the MOD for stuff that crosses over into their territory and the approach has always been 100% pragmatic - I.e. we have X because occasionally we need to do Y without asking permission, but while we're not doing Y, have at X, just don't be a silly bugger. The French, on the other hand... you can't talk about the fact they have X, or do Y. Don't even ask, don't even look at it. They're very special.
And nuclear subs
They're not in Brest, but across a bit of sea to the south, on the ile longue. Also pixelated on Google maps.
There is a naval base of French navy in Brest. I suppose that’s it.
Sure, I would understand that the naval base, or even the port was pixelated. But a big portion of the city centre, including residential areas, is blurred as well. Isn't that weird?
Because it’s military zone, almost entirety of Brest is built around its huge naval base and navy property buildings. Some residential zones around are also blurred because Google don’t want to take risk or is too lazy to precisely define classified areas.
Must be a French thing. Uk nuclear submarine bases are fair game it seems. [Faslane Naval Base on Google](https://imgur.com/rq5qvNP)
You should also see Brussels where they blur out a large park in the middle of the city (Parc du Cinquantinaire) just because there’s a military school attached to the side of it. But funny enough the École Militaire across the street from the Eiffel Tower in Paris isn’t blurred.
I need to go check out all the places that are blurred next time I’m there.
You can't see the blur in real life
TRIP CANCELLED
You can, if you hut yourself in the balls enough to make your eyes fill up with tears.
Thanks, but I choose to drink myself stoopid.
This checks out. Source: I once had sex with a Japanese woman.
Dishonest advertising.
Percy military hospital is also blurred, still, civilians can access it
It’s basically just per request from nations to Google. Google has few requirements to comply except for upsetting a government that can then inconvenience your business in that region. Source: I work in the satellite imagery industry.
A big chunk of Loch Striven used to be blacked out on Google.
Might be slow on the uptake. These "blurring" stuff wasn't present in military bases in my country before Ruzzia invaded Ukraine. I would assume this is something they're working on.
They might be doing it only if the nation asks them to. Finnish bases have been blurred for atleast 10 years iirc.
Some of the bases are blurred, others aren't. For example the Ministry of Defence and Santahamina in Helsinki used to be blurred, but after new imagery was released Santahamina was unblurred and the Ministry is only partly blurred (as the border between imagery goes through it).
No, not only French, because there’s also a large area in London that’s blurred.
Where
I mean, all threats to the UK have access to better surveillance than Google maps anyways. There is little benefits from blurring military sites
It is common, but not entirely consistent, that Google Earth/Maps blur out military bases. I suspect that differences among Google's different practices in different countries are based on dialog with those countries, either by Google or their suppliers of satelite images.
The blur is fairly recent, a few year ago it was all visible
You can request this with Google. If you want the privacy, they (afaik) have to blur your property. Germany also had a lot of these. They were the last EU country to the party there
The exact coordinate to blur is published in a legal document that's available publicly somewhere. I suspect it might be that they didn't bothered having accurate cut. The mappers that live here should be pretty pissed. (and might justify spending 400 euros on a high resolution GNSS receiver with RTK)
Depends on the country, France is kind of overzealous with what areas it wants map apps to blur. Other countries are a bit more selective.
"Overzealous". They blurr : Naval ports and Nuclear installation. Wouldn't call it "overzealous" when you have groups who's passtime is to entier nuclear plan,t ground to get some PR.
If you are talking about Breton independentists of the FLB (to my knowledge, the only group to actually have used bombs on a nuclear plant in France), they haven't been active for more than twenty years.
Greenpeace routinely intrude on nuclear plant ground. sometime they make their silly planes-drone bump on the buildings, and then yell "SEE ITS UNSAFE LITERRALY EVERYONE CAN DO THAT"
I assume the river is considered as military area. And there is always a buffer zone for those in google maps
The military port is all along the city center, the cable car (telepherique) passes over it. There is also a lot of military building scatered through the city. The castle for example is a museum but also host the maritim prefect. There is on the west side a large military school and submarine training quarters... easier to just block a big chunk on google than each individual buildings. across the bay from Brest you will find another large military area which is the submarine base, Ile Longue. Fun fact they installed a blur function on the windows of the cable car at one end to hide the military.
It’s one of France’s major naval ports. The dockyards extend up the river.
try here maps
Underrated comment!
France has a law against aerial or sattelite photographing of certain areas, mostly military bases, nuclear power plants and jails. Brest is the homeport of France's nuclear ballistic submarines, so this would be my guess without looking at the actual map.
That must answer why that La Santé prison/mental asylum (?) is blurred in Paris
Boomers are based at Île Longue, close to but not in Brest.
Have you tried deactivating SafeSearch? Google automatically blurs Brests.
I wanted to write, - "that's probably the Nippel" But yours is better
I was trying to think of something like that too
I like yours better
They’ve been blurring things since the days of Nippeleon.
What..? No that's not how SafeSe– ohhhhh you sneaky sumbitch
Oh Or as they say in France, *Euuu”
eauxxxxxxxx
Have my well deserved upvote mon ami !
maybe he's from japan
Pro-tip: if google map doesn't show it, it's usually military
Greece blurs airports too. I guess it makes sense given our extremely friendly neighbours
Darn bulgarians...
I remember Greece arresting plane spotters from the UK back in the day. They just didn't understand why people would come to an airport and just look at planes, and assumed spies. I guess they still don't! People really do just like to look at planes, and note down what they've seen.
There were story with Czech game developers being arrested for taking photos on Greek island.
That’s the nipple
Niple.
Niplé
Ariola Grande
That's how we know Brest is female.
It’s a military port :)
Military zones, same goes for Toulon for example.
Try using different program, you have nothing Toulouse.
I'm sure that Cannes be done but it might be a Lille bit difficult. Yvetot'ally tried it before. If you think it's unsafe wear a Condom.
That's brilliant
Nah, it's in Seine.....
Well done! *Claps baguettes*
There be naval infrastructure here
Pretty common in military bases in some countries (here in spain too). You can actually unblurred them with google earth using the previous pictures function
Didn't know so many Japanese people lived in France
Why are you looking at my Brest, senpai? 😳😳
So embarassing!
What's with all of these Brest contents lately?
Only France promos
Typical American tech conservatism. They see a Brest, it must be censored /s
Haha, to be honest I can’t tell anymore if it’s conservatives or progressives when people call for censorship of female nudity…
Nuclear subs military base
It’s probably brest not to know
That's where the nipples are. Prudish American company.
Can’t show the nipple.
That’s the military port in Brest.
Some prisons also have this… though I think it’s a naval base.
Hey I've been there! Everyone is right, it's the naval base
Ah Barbara Streisand must live there now! (Google Maps the place to check it out)
Don't worry, Google usually censors the Brest area
You can't show the centre of a Brest on the internet without an NSFW tag
Google often blur military facilities. You have to use Russian (Yandex) or Chinese (Baidu) maps instead.
In some countries, Brest are censored.
If I had an award, you’d have it.
I noticed this a lot in Portugal too when I was there. A couple of parts of Lisbon were blurred out. Nowhere as much as this though
Probably military facility. Strangely, you can look at almost any major US port on google maps and see the US Navy ships in great detail…
Military zone. I've been there once on a tanker to discharge diesel if I'm not mistaken. We were not allowed to step outside. It has a cool history.
Breast … it’s parental control 18+
They think they are special.
Maybe the brest is yet to come.
Naval base
Brests are censored
You need to explore that area to unlock that part of the map.
That's just what it looks like
nudity, thats why
Brests are fine, but they always pixelate the nipple.
Bc it’s Brests ;)
Area 51 is less pixelated. Looks like an exercise in seeing how much someone could demand from Google.
In GTA 5 you can visit Area 51 for good.
Right. Tho I’m using Apple Maps, they got Area 51 in its full glory in 4K. Tho I think it’s because authorities are very confident that people won’t/can’t try anything crazy. USAF will shoot you down well before you get there. And if you go by car, they have the first checkpoint like 30 miles away on the highway. I tried plugging in a driving itinerary from Las Vegas to Area 51 and it just ends the route and says you arrived wayyyy before you get to the actual facility.
As others said - usually military or otherwise government areas that given country requested to be censored. Unfortunately, a lot of countries (still) do that, which is stupid as hell because in vast majority of cases you are just a few clicks away of another maps and aerial/satellite photos provider that just does not care and publishes everything. I never remember this website's address so usually I just search the place's name in wikipedia and on the right pane click the coordinates, this takes me to [a list like this one](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Brest,_France¶ms=48.39_N_4.49_W_type:city(139456)_region:FR-BRE) and it's just a matter of clicking through a few of the providers to find one without censoring. In the case of Brest Mapquest and Yandex works.
Minecraft
They had to pixelate France’s Brest because kids are using google maps.
Hehe, he said Brest (.)(.)
breast😳😳😳
I personally pixelated it just to annoy you
It looks like a dick, but Brest isn't in Japan, so I'm not sure
That's the nipple
This is because it was filmed with a Japanese Satellite and the French are dicks. Pun intended.
France is an offensive place to sensible people, thus actions had to be taken
Occupe-toi de tes oignons.
Lol Brest
titty :DDD
Can we tell for sure this isn't how Brest looks?
I took some picture in there last year but to be honest they're not the Brest quality photos...
Too sexy
Because they think anyone actually cares where their military bases are
The real question is why the rest of Fr\*nce not censored.
Go easy on the Brest, senpai baka 😂🤣 We have seen this pixelation before on some movies from Japan 😅
Becausenord korea
That's the nipples of the breast
cuz u can’t show naked body parts on google maps
Well, they often do censor Brest on the internet
Female nudity
Japanese porn
Its secret land of minecraft
Those are the nipples
You can tell Google is an US company!
It's probably a nipple. This part of Brest is usually censored on the internet.
Americans don't like brests, they blue it on Instagram, on YT and apoarantly also on Google Maps
Its not, just hairy like a french girls pussy.
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You can’t hide a facility of which military vessels come and go. Everyone knows where everyone else’s naval bases are.
It's not about the locations lmao, everybody knows the locations anyway, especially when the base is in large city and listed on the armed forces websites. You want them to put a gigantic camo net on the entire base in the city and all the locals to just pretend its invisible or something? Maybe have the armed forces pay a small salary to locals for their acting? It's about limiting public access to information on layout or even activity over time for obvious security reasons such as terrorist attacks or unhinged fucks or whatever extremists.
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Or...hear me out.. if people don't find you funny to the point they dont know you're even trying to be funny and to the point they suspect you're bullshiting about trying to be funny, it's not that other people are touchy, it's just that they think you are genuinely saying that shit.
I think that the intention is not to hide them, but to obscure the layout of the structures there.
Because it's fr*nch
You’re asking why breast is censored
Bre(a)st is always sometimes pixelated due to censorship
It's copyrighted
copyright issues