The Register – Thursday 21st September 2006:
Here’s a cautionary tale for those of you who like to indulge in a bit of light sunbathing in the privacy of your own patio: make sure you ring Google to see if they’re planning a satellite pass-over before whipping off your top:
Topless sunbather captured on Google Earth
No sooner had the poor Dutch woman pictured here popped up on Google Sightseeing, than Digg got hold of her assets. This immediately prompted a heated debate – sadly not on the technological threat to privacy – but rather as to whether or not she really was enjoying her leisure time as nature intended.
Sadly, we may never know. Dutch TV quickly identified the address and moved in for the kill, dispatching a team armed with grabs from Google Earth to the sun-worshipping resident’s domicile. Luckily for her, she wasn’t in.
bush so thick you can see it from space!
WoW ! Can you order a Weed Whacker from space too ! 🙂
Hey, the girl in the picture is a blowup doll. That’s just sick.
Privacy? You can read a total stranger in 2 seconds and know all about them just by what you see.
Could it be a guy?
Wrong shape for a guy, but I’m not so sure she’s just topless.
I’m not so sure she’s just topless.
You’re right. She is European, thus, she is hairy.
She’s lying on her stomach, nothing to see (you can tell by the orientation of the legs).
and also her arms.
by the way, the Inquirer undoubtedly knew about it first but was too classy to print it.
I agree with James
She is lying on her stomach so it is not possible to see if she has a bikini strap or not. The dark area on her lower half is probably her bathing suit.
You guys have to have something better to do than look at blurry grainy images that may or may not be a naked women CRIPES!
Does anyone know if Google Earth gets it’s imagery from satellite exclusively or does it include imagery from aircraft as well?
If it receives only satellite imagery that means this is a hoax. It would have to have better than 0.1 m resolution. That’s not currently possible.
Now imagine what real spy satellite photos look like.
Ooops, you’re right, she is lying on her stomach.
Damn, you folks have good eyes.
She’s on her back, knees slightly up and closer together than her feet–a very common pose. She’s clad in a bathing suit bottom, wearing a light pinkish gray half T-shirt and she is young, but not Rubenesque.
Had she been face down, the shape of her suit bottom would have been different.
Her left hand is up (she’s left-handed) holding a cell phone and her head is bent forward, so you see her brunette hair nearly in a top view. Her right hand is brushing her cheek.
The image was shot by a high-alititude survey aircraft and integrated into the data with no special treatment.
About the “possible” level of satellite imagery: There are black-ops satellites in the Hubble optic class up there. Now what would you pay?
-iNova
“They” can read the year off a dime from orbit people..
for a good 15 years now
Woooooooooo…. titilating!!!!!!
The title of the post says “Google Maps”, but the article references Google Earth. AFAIK, you cannot choose your imagery with google maps user interface (perhaps you can with their API).
Also, Google purchases their geospacial imagery from commercial and governmental providers, as do Microsoft Live Local, Mapquest, Yahoo and plenty of other companies. So this is not really about Google Earth per se, but remote sensing privacy.
So if she’s lying face down, then strictly speaking, she’s not “topless”. And given the low resolution, there may be a bikini strap that’s not showing.
Gotta love the British media…
Oh no, a topless woman..maybe. The world is coming to an end!!!!!
Looks like spinach, dont eat it, dont look at it, dont touch it, STEP AWAY FROM THE SPINACH, NOW
Looks like a blow up doll, to me.
FOCUS, FOCUS……
How did someone find this? What quantity of time are people investing in their Google Earth surfing? Jeez.