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Google has agreed to Parks Australia\u2019s request that user photos taken from the summit of Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) be removed from Street View; climbing Uluru, which is owned by and sacred to the Pitjantjatjara people, has been prohibited since 2019. ABC Australia<\/a>, CNN<\/a>. As of this writing a couple of images are still visible. Aerial coverage is unaffected. [Boing Boing<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google has agreed to Parks Australia\u2019s request that user photos taken from the summit of Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) be removed from Street View; climbing Uluru, which is owned by and sacred to… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[490],"tags":[496,462,82,698,108,1484],"class_list":["post-1789384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-censorship","tag-australia","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-indigenous","tag-street-view","tag-uluru","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5988,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2015\/05\/google-apologizes-for-offensive-map-search-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":1789384,"position":0},"title":"Google Apologizes for Offensive Map Search Results","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 May 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Google Maps had to apologize again last week, this time because searching for racist terms gave results like the White House and Howard University. 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