Censorship of maps describes the way of handling the appearance of potential strategically important objects like military bases, power plants or transmitters towards their censorship on maps. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... A military base is an isolated facility, settlement, or installation that shelters military equipment and personnel. ... A power station (also power plant) is a facility for the generation of electric power. ... In communications and information processing, a transmitter (sometimes abbreviated XMTR) is an object (source) which sends information to an observer (receiver). ... For other uses, see Censor. ... See map for the navigational aid The acronym MAPS could refer to: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Mail Abuse Prevention System Multi-jurisdictional Automated Preclearance System Mid-Atlantic Percussion Society Medical Advanced Pain Specialists Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship Multidisciplinary Academic PerspectiveS Metropolitan Area ProjectS Category: ...

Especially in non-democratic countries, the appearance of such objects on maps available for the public is undesired, so it is often tried not to show them on the map. However problems can occur with the drive of the object. In some cases the drive is drawn in the map until the border of the strategic object. This method is however suspicious as the road ends blind in the terrain. Democracy is a form of government under which the power to alter the laws and structures of government lies, ultimately, with the citizenry. ...

Censorship of maps was also used in former East Germany, especially for the areas near the border to West Germany in order to make attempts of fleeing more difficult. This article is about the state which existed from 1949 to 1990. ...

Censorship of maps is also applied by Google maps, where certain areas are greyed out. Google Maps (for a time named Google Local) is a free web mapping service application and technology provided by Google that powers many map-based services including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder and embedded maps on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It offers street maps...

A variant of censorship of maps is putting in wrong high values. This can be important for predicting flooding. In World War I many German soldiers were killed in Belgium by flooding after their camps were flooded, which were according to the maps used by German military in areas which may be not affected by the flooding. A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ...

Censorship of maps is today still often applied, although it does not make so much sense any more in the age of satellite picture services. This is the first crude picture obtained from Explorer 6 Earth satellite. ...

Similar cases

Lists of air traffic obstacles may not be published by many countries as many of them are strategically important (chimneys of power stations, radio masts, etc.) An Air traffic obstacle is a tall structure which can endanger air traffic. ...

Example

• Hiding a VLF-transmitter of Russian Navy on a map. Compare [1] with satellite image [2]