Norway has released an interactive map of all the military locations where it is forbidden to operate a drone and some security experts are not happy. All the markers on the Innmelding av Sensorflygning map indicates an area where it is illegal to take aerial photographs or video using a camera or any other type of sensors.
The map shows many of Norway's most secret military installations, such as Norway's secret war headquarters and the location of one of Europe's two transmitters for communicating with NATO's submarine fleet. The map also shows the location of 237 other important military and security locations. Some military and security experts have been shocked by the map's release. For example former Chief of Maritime Safety and Naval Home Guard Commander Svein Jarle Jacobsen said that the map is "disastrous for operational safety. I can't believe that they've really done this."
The Deputy Director of NSM, (Norway's National Security Authority) Frode Skaarnes, has dismissed claims that the map reveals the country's military secrets. He claims that the map shows nothing that cannot already be viewed on any map with aerial or satellite imagery and that the map "doe not say anything about what exactly is there and what these facilities are used for."
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