Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Authenticate Google Maps

 The below is a quote making Google maps admissible.  

“[w]e take judicial notice of a Google map and satellite image as a ‘source[ ] whose accuracy cannot reasonably be questioned’ ” for purposes of this case. United States v. Perea–Rey, 680 F.3d 1179, 1182 n. 1 (9th Cir.2012) (second alteration in original) (quoting Fed.R.Evid. 201(b)); see Citizens for Peace in Space v. City of Colo. Springs, 477 F.3d 1212, 1218 n. 2 (10th Cir.2007) (taking judicial notice of an online distance calculation that relied on Google Maps data); United States v. Piggie, 622 F.2d 486, 488 (10th Cir.1980) (“Geography has long been peculiarly susceptible to judicial notice for the obvious reason that geographic locations are facts which are not generally controversial....”); see also David J. Dansky, The Google Knows Many Things: Judicial Notice in the Internet Era, 39 Colo. Law. 19, 24 (2010) (“Most courts are willing to take judicial notice of geographical facts and distances from private commercial websites such as MapQuest, Google Maps, and Google Earth.”). We do this here only to determine the “general location” of relevant events. Perea–Rey, 680 F.3d at 1182 n. 1. The map in the appendix identifies the approximate location of the southern checkpoint—150 yards south of the mayor's driveway—based on Google Maps's “Distance Measurement Tool.” Cf. Citizens for Peace in Space, 477 F.3d at 1218 n. 2.

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