Why so much fuss that an SAS base can be seen on Google street view? It means that it's obviously visible from the street anyway, and probably has been for some time, so hardly a secret location.

Emma Bee wrote:
hardly a secret location.

Yes Emma, you are misssing the point!

The locations of Buckingham Palace or 10 Downing Street are no secret; but you will see no details of the Nevada homes of Stealth Bombers on Google Earth/Streetview/Microsoft World etc. Nor indeed of West Point.

Why provide detailed maps and plans of top secret installations to all and sundry? More often than not, the important factor is what's in these places - rather than where they are.

See the MI5 building near Vauxhall Bridge - but don't bother trying to get in there! And Google won't help much.

Emma makes a good point, and lo and behold up pops Martha (again) to argue.

Seems to me that you need to know where this base is before you can search for it on google street view. I tried to search for it and all I got from google maps was the SAS computer company in the USA. But I did find the exact location of West Point Military Academy simply by entering "west point" into google. It's not on street view, but when you have the exact location why would you need a photo?

Does google street view really provide detailed maps and plans of top secret installations (or even places you can drive past and view openly)? It's called street view because it's the view you get from the street.

It's been announced by the MoD that the image of the SAS base will remain on google. “It would be impractical to ask Google to withdraw images as they can be easily obtained from other sources over which we have no influence.”

technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/te...b/article7069627.ece

Seems that the only fuss being made is by parts of the media, trying to make a story out of nothing (again).

JC wrote:
lo and behold up pops Martha (again) to argue.

Does google street view really provide detailed maps and plans of top secret installations (or even places you can drive past and view openly)? It's called street view because it's the view you get from the street

lo? lol! Again?

Google Earth is much better - a satellite view...

I think Emma Bee is correct.

How on earth could anyone planning to do harm benefit by the google image ?

They would need bloody great WMDs and sophisticated machinery that they would pobably have their own satelite anyway.

yet another beat-up.

Hello Martha !