Until 2013, the palace, as seen on Google Earth, looked like something out of an old Atari game. The office building of the country's kind was once painstakingly blurred pixel-by-pixel with a much more delicate hand than usually used on the country's satellite imagery. Most of the censored areas in the Netherlands used the large, pixelated mask still seen in Noordwijk aan Zee to obscure sensitive sites, but Noordeinde Palace in The Hague got a more personal touch. (There are some spots, like a blob in Noordwijk aan Zee, where new satellite imagery has yet to become available since the law change.) According to CNN, Dutch law changed in 2013 to lift this censorship, and the Netherlands have become considerably clearer since. On Google Earth, the country was dotted with pixelated splotches covering military bases, government buildings and more. But, in most instances, this won't be an issue for most.The Dutch are rather famous in satellite-imagery-loving circles for their enthusiastic pixelation. But there will be exceptions: places excluded by the service, or places too newly constructed to have been assumed into Google's systems. So can you view your house on Google Earth? The quick answer is yes, of course.
Useful for gleaning house numbers on specific buildings, as and when useful. You can navigate between shots using the directional arrows, click-and-drag to get a better view, or hit the '+' symbol to zoom in. These Street View images are taken from one of the many Google cars that have driven around millions of miles of the world's streets. That street will light up blue and, once you release the mouse, you'll then be taken in by another animation taking you to street level. (Image credit: Google) Knock on the front door?īeyond Google Earth and its 3D-styling, you can use the system much like Google Maps (or, indeed, just use Maps in the first instance) to drag-and-drop the little orange person from the right corner of the screen onto an available street.
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