"[...]Google and Rumsey decided to white-out the areas while Berkeley decided not to alter any of our online maps. Google is a business enterprise and wants to avoid any trouble, I understand their position. We have not altered the original maps in either the main online collection or in the Google Maps collection - both of which are not hosted by Google but rather by David Rumsey. [...]"
From http://www.maphistory.info/newslatest.html
The google map version is not modified :
http://rumsey.geogarage.com/index.html?lat=37.71859032558813&lon=138.2958984375&zoom=6
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"[...]Google and Rumsey decided to white-out the areas while Berkeley decided not to alter any of our online maps. Google is a business enterprise and wants to avoid any trouble, I understand their position. We have not altered the original maps in either the main online collection or in the Google Maps collection - both of which are not hosted by Google but rather by David Rumsey. [...]" From http://www.maphistory.info/newslatest.html The google map version is not modified : http://rumsey.geogarage.com/index.html?lat=37.71859032558813&lon=138.2958984375&zoom=6