Google Earth Overlay

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CHRIS DIBONA
Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.; Editor, Open Sources: Voices From the Open Source Software Revolution and Open Sources 2.0

Widely Available, Constantly Renewing, High Resolution Images of the Earth Will End Conflict and Ecological Devastation As We Know It

This idea reminds me of a Wired cartoon few years ago depicting the future of UN surveillance, where an UN officer, accompanied with thousands of webcam-powered flying insectron bots that are connected with PC users from around the world, interrogate a shady factory in the Middle East. When secrecy is demolished by Google Earth, security will again be reinforced in spite of private and anonymous sphere. A sort of David Ryan-ish mutual surveillance expanded from gated community onto a global, satellite scale?

As in a security hacker's stance, I thought of a way to disguise Google Earth. The basic idea is to, a little like the GITS optical camouflage, to overlay the targeted surface with a layer of static capture of the same exact place. This could be 1mx1m or 1kmx1km; as remote sensing cannot really have a tri-dimensional view of the earth's surface, this sort of camo should be convincingly realized with a careful handwork.
This way, a landscape slightly different than the reality can be overlayed onto the shared imaginary of GEarth. Something we can call Google Earth Overlay (GEO) method.