So che in passato non è stato bloccato e ora ho appena notato e mi chiedo se è qualcosa di recente. So per certo che la scuola militare del Parc du Cinquantenaire è stata bloccata, ma questa è la prima volta che vedrò questo dal Palazzo reale.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1iafqox
di CoeurdAssassin
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Same as all military installations. As the king is the head of the military, so is his “office”.
OP, with a username like that, i’m surprised they didn’t block you from seeing the whole map!
Has been for as long as I remember on Google Maps.
I quickly went down to a Google Maps rabbit hole to check some other pixelated places.
Park van Leaken and the respective palace are also pixelated. Also for example the military school in Brussels, SHAPE in Mons or Elizabeth quartier in Evere.
They are all more visible than on your picture here though, including the Royal Palace. You can still make out the shape of the buildings, but just at a much lower resolution.
Meanwhile the Prison of St. Giles and the powerplants of Doel/Tihange are completely blured out.
The reason is obvious: security. For some places it is enough to pixelate the buildings, for others you want as little information as possible to be available.
Makes me wonder why Kleine Brogel and NATO HQ are not pixelated though.
https://preview.redd.it/kjl2wvwqtcfe1.png?width=1191&format=png&auto=webp&s=7ac1315d904b7c2dac2d0c13d0a17f9c575bdeae
They can go on and on about “security reasons,” but honestly, it’s just ridiculous and absurd. You can always check out the blurred areas using, surprise, Russian maps (maps.yandex.ru). Here’s an example on the screenshot.
To me, this is a classic case of “security theater,” where people justify their own relevance by hindering others, masking vandalism as a concern for security. In reality, they’ve got nothing better to do, and one thing they’re definitely not interested in is “fighting terrorism.” After all, what rat catcher would ever want to catch all the rats?
And let’s not even get started on the fact that, for a relatively small fee, anyone can buy fresh commercial satellite imagery with meter-level resolution, far better than the outdated and “amateurish” Google photos.