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Papa Bear  
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(1 user)  More options Apr 28, 3:38 pm
From: Papa Bear <papabear.newy...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:38:17 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 3:38 pm
Subject: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
4/28/2008 - 3:00 EDT

I'm developing some maps in Massachusetts, New York and Maine.
Satellite tiles are not appearing at any zoom level.

I thinks maps.google.com is also affected.

Anyone else?


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From: marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:43:07 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 3:43 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
They look fine to me.
2/28/2008 - 2:39 CST

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Papa Bear  
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From: Papa Bear <papabear.newy...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:02:38 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 4:02 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
I'm still see this problem.  In the status bar I get

"Transferring data from sorry.google.com..."  and the tiles show the
usual "We are sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level"

Here's my map:
http://www.stuyvesantcove.org/benchmarking/BM_Benchmarking.html#&type...

Same for Google maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=46.61578+-91.03598

If you don't see the problem, is there any possible scenario where
Google would deny imagery JUST TO ME, using both the API. and the
regular Google maps?  I'm not getting any special error messages.

Thanks

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Garthan  
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 More options Apr 28, 4:07 pm
From: Garthan <lance...@inetnebr.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:07:31 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 4:07 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
I have seen an irrational ip specific sorry from google..
mine was very temporary... maybe an hour or two.. somebody thought it
had to
do with... clearing ones cache and reloading too much. Exactly the
kind of thing
a developer is likely to do eh.

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 More options Apr 28, 4:14 pm
From: marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:14:01 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 4:14 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
On Apr 28, 3:02 pm, Papa Bear <papabear.newy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm still see this problem.  In the status bar I get
> "Transferring data from sorry.google.com..."  and the tiles show the

sorry.google.com? Is the API using that subdomain anywhere? :-)
(it just looks like an alias for www)

Your map looks fine, with satellite tiles and all.

At that particular spot they don't have tiles beyond zoom 15. Just
zoom out a little.

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Papa Bear  
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 More options Apr 28, 4:21 pm
From: Papa Bear <papabear.newy...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:21:18 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 4:21 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
Things are working again.  The problem lasted about an hour.  It would
be nice to know what was happening, for future reference.

Garthan:  did you ever figure anything out?  Did it happen again?  In
my case I didn't clear the cache when it happened (although I cleared
it out a few hours earlier when I backed up my system).

Here's a (paranoid) idea:  it first happened when I was looking at a
National Guard Base on Cape Cod which I had visited last weekend (with
permission) to identify a survey marker (I map survey markers) .  Any
conspiracy theories?

Thanks

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uno  
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 More options Apr 28, 4:35 pm
From: uno <u...@aporee.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:35:51 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 4:35 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
On 28 Apr., 22:21, Papa Bear <papabear.newy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Things are working again.  The problem lasted about an hour.  It would
> be nice to know what was happening, for future reference.

as i wrote in a post a bit earlier today:
it happens to me almost every day since about two weeks. no satellite
images. if you dig into the sorry tiles, you'll find a page where they
blame you for being a robot, spy or malware... it happens on different
machines and different connections, independant from my cache or
cookies, no proxies inbetween. no changes on my site since months. it
nerves.

> Here's a (paranoid) idea:  it first happened when I was looking at a
> National Guard Base on Cape Cod which I had visited last weekend (with
> permission) to identify a survey marker (I map survey markers) .  Any
> conspiracy theories?

great. i'm dealing with survey stations too, a bit at least, and yes,
it started about when i was visiting the fundamental TP for the 1st
order triangulation network in germany ;-)

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Garthan  
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 More options Apr 28, 5:02 pm
From: Garthan <lance...@inetnebr.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:02:05 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 5:02 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
I'l bite I could have been looking at area 51.

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From: "Barry Hunter" <barrybhun...@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:44:29 +0100
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 6:44 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:14 PM, marcelo <marcelo...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>  On Apr 28, 3:02 pm, Papa Bear <papabear.newy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm still see this problem.  In the status bar I get
>  > "Transferring data from sorry.google.com..."  and the tiles show the

>  sorry.google.com? Is the API using that subdomain anywhere? :-)
>  (it just looks like an alias for www)

The API doesnt directly. But if Google blocks your IP any accesses get
redirected to a captcha on that domain.

If you visit a url for a tile directly you will see what I mean. Just
fill out the captcha and you will be back on track again.

http://mt0.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.61&x=0&y=0&zoom=17
http://kh0.google.com/kh?n=404&v=20&t=t

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 More options Apr 28, 8:51 pm
From: uno <u...@aporee.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:51:01 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 8:51 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.

yes, i've typed in 3 captchas today... but the question is, why this
suddenly happens.
i can't see a reason for this blocking.
uno

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Papa Bear  
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 More options Apr 28, 9:37 pm
From: Papa Bear <papabear.newy...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:37:18 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 9:37 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.
The problem has returned.  This map:
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2h6gy/papabear/BM_Station_GMap.ht...

It came and went twice in the last 10 minutes.

Questions:

1) what's a captcha?
2) what does this mean and what do I do? "If you visit a url for a
tile directly you will see what I mean. Just
fill out the captcha and you will be back on track again. "
Huh?

PAMELA:  has the tile server been changed recently to cause these
blockages to happen?

I'm generating next to no traffic: 5 map generations in 10 minutes,
with only a few markers per map.  This is getting worrisome.  Today is
the first time I've seen it.

Thanks

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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:49:53 +0100
Local: Mon, Apr 28 2008 9:49 pm
Subject: Re: Did we just lose all the Satellite views in the (northeast) US.