Blurring is well past the normal low-resolution for most of the continent. Several large areas of Antarctica are blurred, including one over 23 km (14 mi) long.
The following is a partial list of notable known map sections that have been blurred or blanked. The vast majority of Antarctica is also in low resolution due to the bright, often featureless, ice and snow making high-resolution imaging both difficult and largely unnecessary. Most military and defense facilities, along with many private homes, appear blurred in mapping services. This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. The government of Malaysia has stated that it will not ask Google to censor sensitive areas because that would identify the locations it deemed to be sensitive. However, images of its roof have been and the entrance to The Lodge is blurred in Google Street View. Images of the prime minister's official residence, The Lodge have not been blurred. It was reported that in the lead-up to the APEC forum in Sydney held in September 2007 certain key locations in images of the city's central business district, where APEC leaders were meeting, might have been intentionally reduced in resolution however, Google has indicated that the change was unrelated to APEC, while the NSW police said that they knew nothing about the change in Google's images. The Australian government has decided that images of sensitive areas are not a risk, due to poor level of detail. Countries engaged with Google Maps ĭuring talks with the Indian government, Google issued a statement saying "Google has been talking and will continue to talk to the Indian government about any security concerns it may have regarding Google Earth." Google agreed to blur images on request of the Indian government.