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November 23, 2006
New Google Earth Imagery and Terrain Data for Thanksgiving - Thanks!
[UPDATE 24-Nov 0830: Google included an aerial photo of the Firefox Logo Crop Circle 
, read more about it here.]
Google released new terrain data which fixes some of the holes in places like the Matterhorn and Mt. Everest to improve the resolution. They also have added new imagery in many places around the globe. I'm too full from Thanksgiving dinner to go look, so here's a summary of the changes from 'PenguinOpus' at the Google Earth Community (he is one of the developers of Google Earth):
This morning, a terrain update occurred that corrects many of the holes in the SRTM data. This greatly improves the appearance of Mt. Everest, Matterhorn, and others in South America, Asia, and Europe.Also included are imagery updates:
- 12 high-resolution cities in Germany (Bayreuth, Bochum, Castrop-Rauxel, Fulda, Hof, Mannheim, Marburg, Potsdam, Schweinfurt, Siegen, Unna Froendenberg, Wuerzburg)
- 6 high-resolution regions in the UK (Bridgend, Cleveland, Dundee, Plymouth, Poole, Rochford)
- 31 city updates from DigitalGlobe
- entire island of Oahu
- Imagery from individual cities/counties: Grants Pass, OR; City of Kent, WA; Salem, OR; Douglas County, WA; Hartford County, MD; Jackson County, OR; Summit County, OH;
- Expanded/updated coverage for the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Indiana, and Florida
- Darfur
- 66 Islands
- improved SF/Bay area water
Posted by FrankTaylor at November 23, 2006 09:28 PM
Comments
Posted by: gulo at November 24, 2006 02:28 AM
Go to: 45� 7'21.98"N 123� 6'50.42"W
:)
Posted by: polvi at November 24, 2006 03:14 AM
Does anybody know, when there will be better images of switzerland?
Posted by: gerstenlaub at November 24, 2006 04:23 AM
Alex,
Nice find! I'm glad to see they included the new Firefox logo crop circle. Here is a link to the location:
Posted by: Frank Taylor at November 24, 2006 08:25 AM
Why are those people lying to the south of the Firefox logo?
Posted by: DasJan at November 24, 2006 12:34 PM
Just so you know, the new imagery is for Summit County, Ohio, not Oregon as it says in the picture. There is no Summit County, OR and I live in Summit County, OH, meaning that I saw the new data just for the county. Love the blog.
Posted by: Patrick at November 24, 2006 01:53 PM
They are laying there to be in the aerial photo of the logo (that is several of the folks who helped create it). Notice that the plane and cars are set out as letters.
Posted by: Frank Taylor at November 24, 2006 02:40 PM
Cool, I live in Jackson County, OR, and I work in Grants Pass, OR. And they were both updated on my Birthday :-)
Posted by: Jensen at November 26, 2006 02:52 AM
Seems to also be quite a bit of new imagery for South Africa :)
Posted by: Marc at November 27, 2006 12:44 AM
In Google Earth, you did a careless job that didn't happen before at the same location.
Mistake: Bad connection of satellite image
Location: 9* 56' 15.28" N
84* 02' 04.49" W
I would be happy if you take care of it.
In advance, Thanks!
Posted by: Aleeo at November 27, 2006 11:56 AM
It is said that 31 cities had updates from Digital Globe. I wonder which cities it concerns. Are they all US cities? Can anyone tell me?
Posted by: Maarten at November 29, 2006 03:48 PM
How can I obtain a picture of Earth from the moon?
Posted by: E T Payne at December 5, 2006 11:59 AM
The list above states that imagery was updated for the "entire island of Oahu," but I'm still seeing imagery in the Honolulu area that's about three years old (e.g., the imagery shows empty lots where 45-story highrises have been occupied for over a year).
So what was updated on Oahu? Not the entire island, obviously.
Posted by: Kuahine at December 9, 2006 09:32 AM
Kuahine, the statement was meant to refer to the fact that the imagery for Oahu is now all high-resolution. Previously portions of Oahu were at 15 meter resolution, now it is at 1 to 2 meters or better.
Posted by: Frank Taylor at December 9, 2006 09:46 AM
Thanks very much for your prompt reply, Frank, which explains what the imagery update meant.
I look forward to seeing new satellite imagery for Honolulu, since many among the current set of images are seriously out of date.
Posted by: Kuahine at December 10, 2006 05:05 AM
My question: how did the people in the Firefox logo near Salem OR know that the satellite photo was to be taken at a certain time? Or is it fake?
Posted by: Paulsonn at December 17, 2006 06:33 PM
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