Is this a tad bizarre? Google reverts to pre-Katrina maps.

[LiberalHeart]

This is just plain strange:

Scroll across the city and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and everything is back to normal: Marinas are filled with boats, bridges are intact and parks are filled with healthy, full-bodied trees.

In the images available Thursday, the cranes working to fix the breach of the 17th Street Canal are gone. Blue tarps that covered roofless homes are replaced by shingles. Homes wiped off their foundations are miraculously back in place in the Lower 9th. So, too, is the historic lighthouse on Lake Pontchartrain.

http://newsgrinder.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-maps-return-to-pre-katrina.html

[BlooInBloo]

1. mmm... Corporate-sponsored propaganda....

... Don't let the rest of the country see how fucked up the place.

EDIT: Subject misspelling.

[Selatius]

2. Biloxi still looks messed up.

This may be a different case for other cities smashed by Katrina, though.

[Hosnon]

3. I just noticed that. Lots of blue tarps in the Biloxi maps. NOLA looks pristine though. NT.

[LiberalHeart]

4. I wonder if the towers are still standing in NYC.

[Rex]

5. Not at all, they are owned by the gummit.

Rove and Satan.

[NYCGirl]

8. If they are, it's a Democratic gummit.

http://www.buyblue.org/node/1053/view/summary

[Kelly Rupert]

12. ...Google is? Link? n/t

[LiberalHeart]

14. Google it.

[NYCGirl]

15. They aren't. Google was the only search engine to fight the DOJ when they

subpoenaed info.

http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198001637

[Behind the Aegis]

18. It appears it is Google maps.

I thought the poster (for another post) was mistaken, until I realized I was looking at Mapquest maps. On the Mapquest ones, you can see the damaged bridges, FEMA parks, blue tarps, and other messes. But, Google, that shit ain't right! There is a FEMA park not 9 blocks from my house, so that was the first thing I looked for because it is easy to identify. This is shameful.

[Richard Steele]

6. Fascinating. I'm gonna have to ask somebody about this.

That's just..well it's certainly SOMETHING, innit?
I'm gonna have to do some eMailing about this one.

[LiberalHeart]

7. Do you know people who work in this field?

[Richard Steele]

16. Yes.

I know a programmer who works at Google, on one of the
GoogleMaps teams.

I've always resisted the temptation to bug her with Google
questions. And it hasn't been easy, with some of the nearly
MYTHICAL tales I've heard about the place. The cafeteria is
supposed to be a world class four-star restaurant, and FREE...
lots of stuff like that, where I'd like ask "is it really true",
but I just didn't wanna be a pest.

This, however, is gonna get a casually-worded eMail sent her way
tomorrow. This one isn't just about my curiosity; it might actually
be something important to all of us.
If I get any answers at all, rest assured that I'll be sharing
them with DU.

[LiberalHeart]

17. Good. Let us know. And yes, I think the google stories are true.

I saw a feature on the news about them, and there was quite a bit of coverage about their perks when it was announced they were opening an office in Ann Arbor, MI.

[uppityperson]

9. It's been this way for a while, changing a bit here and there across MS.

pull up mapquest.com on 1 page and google maps on another and scroll down the coast.

I first found this looking at New Orleans, neighborhood in Lower 9th Ward, made me just stop and look and cry. Traveling across the coast it changed back and forth, new and old. Heartbreaking.

[tuvor]

10. Well, what do you expect from a company worth a measley $143 billion?

As their product manager for satellite imagery says, it's the best they can offer.

Now lay off, everyone, okay?

[LiberalHeart]

11. I wish they'd put a mansion on my plot of land. One that's paid for.

[Rex]

13. Now where did all that money come from?

nt