Uh oh… It looks like Google Maps Street View is invading privacy of private lands.  Although most people probably won’t care that much but how did Google Maps get pictures of private lands in the first place?

Since the introduction of Google Maps’ Street View last spring, the feature has caused controversy in several cities and with the federal government. The Pentagon banned Google Maps from taking any images of military facilities, and a Pittsburgh couple sued the company over images of their home taken from the private road in front of their house.

The North Oaks City Council sent a letter to Google in January asking the company to remove the images and destroy the files or possibly be cited for violating the city’s trespassing ordinance.

Google spokeswoman Elaine Filadelfo said the images of North Oaks were removed shortly afterward. She didn’t know of any other city in the country that has made a similar request.

via startribuune

With exportGge it is possible to :

• view each cartoweb generated map in Google Earth as a ground overlay
• view each point , line, polygon as a placemark in Google Earth including metadata
• view each mapserver layer inside Google Earth as a WMS layer. The WMS layer gets refreshed according to navigation inside google earth (Network links)
• view all the above listed data inside Google Maps
• the data exported to KML can be the full extent or a selection using CartoWeb’s querying features

exportGge is available through the modified default demoCW3 CartoWeb project here . A demo is available online here.