Not all areas on satellite images are covered in the same resolution. Other well-known government installations, including Area 51 in the Nevada desert, are visible. Naval Observatory area (where the official residence of the Vice President is located), and previously the United States Capitol and the White House (which formerly featured this erased housetop). Google has blurred some areas for security (mostly in the United States), including the U.S. Various governments have complained about the potential for terrorists to use the satellite images in planning attacks.
Virgin Islands) as well as parts of Australia and many countries. Google Maps provides high-resolution satellite images for most urban areas in Canada, and the United States (including Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. A related product is Google Earth, a stand-alone program for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, SymbianOS, and iPhone OS which offers more globe-viewing features, including showing polar areas. Google Maps uses the Mercator projection, so it cannot show areas around the poles. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. Screenshot of Google Maps showing a route from San Francisco to Los Angeles on Interstate 5.
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