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State-of-the-art criminal hunt: police use Google Earth - ten curious cases

2020-03-05T06:13:21.697Z


The police use Google StreetView to identify the criminals. Google Earth records the whole world in real time, including criminals.


The police use Google StreetView to identify the criminals. Google Earth records the whole world in real time, including criminals.

  • Police use Google * Earth to catch criminals.
  • Crimes committed by Google StreetView cars.
  • The curious 10 crimes uncovered by Google Earth.

Munich / USA - With Google Earth everyone has the opportunity to discover all corners of the world, find the fastest way to work or home and even call it all up in a 360-degree panoramic street perspective. The police also use Google Earth. The Google service searches for criminals and detects criminals using the Google service.

Google Earth reveals large field of marijuana

Among other things, the Oregon police discovered an illegal marijuana field in 2013. The plantation was hidden in the forest, but police officers were able to use Google Earth's aerial photographs to locate the drug field.

The video lists the 10 most curious criminals that were captured by Google * Earth.

Police are testing "live google earth" to conduct total #surveillance of cities from the sky & watch crime real time: http://t.co/Z7jyZRQ5cj

- Abby Martin (@AbbyMartin) April 19, 2014

How does Google Earth work?

Google Earth captures various images, including satellite, aerial, 3D, and street view images. All the data collected is gradually acquired and results in the classic Google Maps image.

However, these are not real-time recordings, so no live changes are recorded. If a crime is detected by a Google camera, it is simply bad luck for the offender and luck for the police.

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German police officers also use the aerial photos provided by Google * Earth, for example, as a spokesman for the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office told Computerwoche. The recordings support the police work in scouting the area and how the buildings are laid out. "Then we don't have to fly over with the police helicopter."

Google Earth discoveries are not uncommon

Not only criminals are detected with the help of Google * Earth, in England a man discovers a giant in a field and if you use the panorama function in Ithaka (New York) to scroll under a highway bridge, Google Maps shows a creepy scene.

The Instagram page "Google Earth Finder" has set itself the task of capturing and sharing all mysterious and curious Google Maps discoveries.

Check out this post on Instagram

Even Darth Vader must take the trash out Follow @googlearthfinder for more!

A post shared by Google Earth Finder (@googlearthfinder) on Feb 25, 2020 at 12:47 pm PST

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Source: merkur

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