Morocco blocks Google Maps
May 18th, 2008
I have blogged previously about stuff that doesn’t work in Morocco. At that time, Google Earth was already blocked, but one could still find the same information via Google Maps. I had not checked that again for some time. However, in the last week I have done so several times and have discovered that, while the site comes up, neither the maps nor the satellite data is accessible from within Morocco. What is especially frustrating to me is that I can’t even look at a street map of a city in my home country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Sigh.
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1. menek | May 18th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Have you tried Flash Eath ( http://www.flashearth.com/ )?
Cheers!
2. matthew | May 18th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I’m a little nervous to comment because I would hate for things to be lost. I’ll risk it, though.
I had never heard of Flash Earth–that’s pretty cool, thanks! It works for all the engines except the Google Maps one.
3. Yann | May 18th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Time to contribute to http://www.openstreetmap.org ?
4. nabil2199 | May 19th, 2008 at 1:16 am
yes ,it has been that way for a while now (last summer if I recall).
this 2steps forward one step backwards policy of the makhzen really angers me.
5. Jason Dragon | May 19th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Well you are a linux expert by now. There are many ways to surf from remote locations. For example you could set up a tunnel to a computer you control elsewhere, such as in the US, and surf from that computer. It would be like an encrypted SSH connection and I doubt that would be blocked, they would not even see it give specific ports. Totally legal and often used.
You could also spoof your IP address, programs such as netcat or Mendax I heard can do this well. I have never tried because I don’t need to do this. I was looking into it a lot when I lived in Asia. Spoffing is complex and I don’t totally get it.
I simply used the first method, and had a computer in Arizona do the surfing for me and mouse an X windows session on that box. It was also just as fast really. Do you have an extra box here in Arizona, I could put it on my network for ya?
6. matthew | May 19th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
There are a number of things that could be done, including several you haven’t mentioned. My frustration is not with an actual inability to use the sites that interest me, but rather that any sort of bypass method would be necessary.
On that last paragraph, check you email for something coming soon.
7. Tiramisu | June 5th, 2008 at 7:10 am
hi
nice to meet U
I like ubuntu as U like it
很高兴认识你
8. khalid raza(pakistan) | September 18th, 2008 at 5:52 am
MARAKKECH …a name which i read in my school books as a name of a country.i only new a little about MARAKKECH that here was held first ”ISLAMIC SUMMET” in 1973 at RABAT.
when first time i came to italia in 2001 i knew that MARAKKECH is only name of a city but name of this country is MOROCCO.
in 2002 i visted morocco for some days and i found it amazing.i saw that every thing in morocco is like my homeland PAKISTAN,its culture its family system its celibirations are like pakistan,just 2 things brought me to a nice surprise NO 1.every one here is educated(most nomber of population) 2:here 95% muslim women are covered with hijaab.
i like morocco and i really love morocco.morocco is as my second home.and i wish to visit or stay in morocco forever.in sha allah.
9. matthew | September 18th, 2008 at 7:35 am
marhaba, khalid
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