{"id":564,"date":"2011-09-20T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2011-09-20T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T15:29:45","slug":"a-gearth-challenger-from-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/09\/a-gearth-challenger-from-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"A GEarth challenger from Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, Iranian officials have decided to build a service to counter the success of Google Earth, which is described as a website that “was designed and built by the global arrogance for espionage purposes and to gather information from other countries<\/em>” (Brigadier-General Mohammad Hasan Nami quoted in a Mehr news agency report<\/a>). The new website called “Basir” (the one seeing) will be globally accessible and \u2013\u00a0in the Brigadier-General’s imagination\u00a0\u2013 “can prevent certain websites such as the ‘Google Earth’ from gathering information about other countries<\/em>”\u00a0(no information as to how that should work, other than substantially undermining GEarth’s user base).<\/p>\n

There’s not much about specs, yet one announced feature is kinda unique, as far as I know: users of Muslim belief will be able to easily determine the direction in which to pray at any point on earth.<\/p>\n

I can’t find the site online. Would be interesting to give it a spin, once it goes live. Though I’m not exactly holding my breath\u00a0\u2013\u00a0nor is El Goog, I imagine.<\/p>\n

(via got geoint?<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Addendum: The Tehran Times has an article<\/a>. But it quickly mingles the Basir<\/em> topic with Iranian and American geopolitics in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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