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Iran to launch its own Google Earth
Friday April 12, 2013 10:43:51 AM,
Agencies
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Dubai: Iran has planned to launch its own
3D mapping service after Tehran authorities long accused Google
Earth of being a tool for western spy agencies, Iran’s
semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
The Islamic Republic’s information and communication minister
announced this week that his country was developing something he
described as an “Islamic Google Earth” which should be ready to
use in the “next four months.”, Al Arabiya reported Thursday.
“Preparations have been made for launching our world's 3D map
project and we are currently creating an appropriate data center
which could be capable of processing this volume of information,”
the semi-official Mehr news agency quoted Mohammed Hassan Nami as
saying.
Iran has often suspected that Western web services of snooping.
“We are doing our best to launch the Islamic Google Earth in the
next four months as an Islamic republic's national portal,
providing service on a global scale,” he added.
“On the surface, Google Earth is providing a service to users, but
in reality security and intelligence organizations are behind it
in order to obtain information from other countries,” Nami told
reporters.
The minister did not elaborate on how Iran’s version of Google
maps will differ or how it what made it ‘Islamic.’
“We are developing this service with the Islamic views we have in
Iran and we will put a kind of information on our website that
would take people of the world towards reality … Our values in
Iran are the values of God and this would be the difference.”
Last year Iranian authorities claimed to have finished the first
phase of a national internet, which will be aimed at replacing
services run through the world-wide-web.
Recently, Iranian authorities have taken other measures to curb
internet freedoms by blocking the use of most “virtual private
networks”, a tool most of its population used to get around an
extensive government Internet filter.
In Dec. 2012 Iran launched its own video-sharing website to
compete against Google’s popular YouTube whose content is deemed
inappropriate by the Islamic regime.
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