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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