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I was reading about the arsenal at Toulon earlier today and looked it up on Google maps to see if it was obvious where the old Darse Vauban was - only to be faced with chunky pixels across the entire port!

Yandex maps, of course, no such compulsion. Ridiculous stuff.

Mhm yandex has the only satelitte imagery I've found that does not pixelate this

https://yandex.com/maps/10502/paris/house/ZlcCdgBpTkUbWFZ0a3...

Not masked in Apple Maps. Weird. https://maps.apple.com/?address=141%20Boulevard%20Mortier,%2...

It definitely looks blurred in satellite view for me, in browser and on the app, but the roads are still visible over the top, just like Google's

Thje CIA building needs 3 times the space for parking as for the building.

Safer than underground parking.

Interesting! It's like the difference between security through obscurity and security by design.