Google Maps urged to stop people 'walking' on sacred site with visitors banned
dailystar.co.ukGoogle Maps has been urged to stop users "walking" on a sacred indigenous site when logged into the street view function. Parks Australia, responsible for managing the country's protected areas, has pleaded with the internet giant to remove images of the top of sacred site Uluru, in the Northern Territory, which allows users to walk on its summit.Visitors have been banned from the top of the rock, which has spiritual significance to the Anangu people, the aboriginal traditional owners of the site.Google Maps' street view function allows people to move around different environments as part of a virtual walking tour.It contains 360-degree images of the summit of Uluru, allowing users to effectively defy the ban on visitors.A spokesperson for.
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