cityofsound: The Anti-Fun Palace: APEC Fence, Sydney lockdown

cityofsound: The Anti-Fun Palace: APEC Fence, Sydney lockdown: "As Marcus points out, this design work now also include a tightening of the informational grip on the city, by deliberately eroding data services over strategic locations. He describes as a 'lo-fi-ing of Sydney, resolution as security measure', in which Google Earth/Maps high-resolution imagery of the Sydney CBD is subtracted, such that it becomes temporarily blurred over the Opera House and other related places. One speculates as to how that happened. (Of course, Google wouldn't want to be held responsible if anything terrible did happen, as will no doubt have been pointed out to them. Though it's a little ludicrous to suggest that their service offers the potential plotter anything over the many readily accessible, detailed paper maps of Sydney apparently still in existence.) It's also strange to note just how overly precise the blurring is. In this image below, of Google Maps on my phone taken on Wednesday, note how the edge of the Opera House (left) is the exact point at which the blurring/sharpening occurs. A curiously limited definition of the danger zone."








So...a virtual zone of exception, huh? I'm not sure I totally buy it because the blurred zone follows a neat line between sat-photo angles and resolutions that you can track along the landforms to the east. Here's the link. Nonetheless, its a fascinating idea.