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December 17, 2006
New Imagery Update for the Holidays - Awesome!
Google not only updated the Google Earth 4 beta this weekend, but just today released a huge imagery update. And guess what? Google Earth Blog now has its own aerial photos included within Google Earth. You'll find a couple of aerial photos I took in a small plane during the X PRIZE Cup in October at the Las Cruces, New Mexico airport 
(read about the photo here). And also a couple of practice photos I took of the Sanford - Lee County airport in North Carolina (see here ). Even the copyright message says "Google Earth Blog". Pretty neat!
In addition, Google added a 3 meter resolution terrain mesh for Mount Saint Helens (much higher than what you normally find - you should use the "Tools->Options->Terrain Quality" setting to adjust the quality).
Here's the announcement at the GEC about the imagery update:
- DigitalGlobe updates all over the globe with the most notable being large content additions in Somalia and Australia
- Updated US states: Indiana and Delaware
- Miscellaneous high res cities and counties in North America: Monterey Bay, CA; Yakima County, WA; Summerland, Canada; Greater East Wenatchee, WA; Polk County, IA; Warren County IA; and Bay County, FL
- Small high-res updates in the UK (Swansea, Edinburgh, Doncaster, Gwent) and expanded London coverage
- High-res update in Bremerhaven, Germany.
- Newer imagery for Lanzarote (Canary Islands)
- Google Earth Blog-supplied XPrizeCup flyover and the Sanford, NC airport
- Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Foo Camp @ O'Reilly Headquarters in Sebastapol, CA
Posted by FrankTaylor at December 17, 2006 07:19 PM
Comments
Posted by: Dr. Canoro at December 17, 2006 11:03 PM
so cool, i can even see my miata on the western parking lot @ the x prize cup event;-) the photo you made avail. before wasn't as high rez as the photo integrated into GE;-) congrats on this coelness;-)
Posted by: smokeonit at December 18, 2006 02:42 AM
Wow, really cool shots of Las Cruces, Great Job Frank.
Posted by: Jacob T at December 18, 2006 10:35 AM
Updated: Valladolid in Spain, photo of 2/9/2006
Posted by: adonet at December 18, 2006 12:33 PM
Columbus, Ohio has been updated and with highter rezolution
Posted by: Eddie at December 18, 2006 02:06 PM
I mentioned this in the Ogle Earth blog too. I noticed that it appears there is new imagery for western Los Angeles County, CA. I'm not quite sure, it could just be me. But it appears that way.
Posted by: Patrick at December 18, 2006 03:40 PM
Unfortunately they removed the high-res area around Potsdam, Germany they added last time.
Posted by: Nodder at December 18, 2006 05:07 PM
Unfortunately this update of Australia again missed the 5 major ski resorts of:
Buller
Falls Creek
Hotham
Perisher Blue
and Thredbo
Still at very low resolution much to the dissappointment of the hundreds of thousands of skiers and boarders in Australia :(
Posted by: Ian at December 20, 2006 01:48 AM
I'd like to know the appropriate place to post a data resource. I'd like to think that pointing the apprpriate person to such data would help to promote their inclusion in GE.
I'm working on a project near Lameque, New Brunswick, Canada. The owner of the project sent me to a great resource that included topography, digital terrain models, and aerial photography. These resources look to be sponsored by the New Brunswick government. Here's the site: http://www.snb.ca/gdam-igec/e/2900e_1c.asp
The MrSid drawings are great
Posted by: jim at December 20, 2006 09:53 AM
Hello,
I am just curious, what is the particular day of the year, year and time that the photo's of Summerland were taken on. I am a resident and a school teacher. I am just curious when exactly they were taken. If you could email me back, I would appreciate it -- I could share some of the info with my students. Thank you.
Posted by: J Fitton at March 15, 2007 02:23 PM
I see that some aircraft parked at Honolulu International Airport terminal are partially invisible!
Posted by: Pat Crowe at April 8, 2007 08:17 PM
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They have new high resolution areas in Mexico too!
I asked in the Google Earth Community for my city and now I have it! Thank you very much Google!! that's one of the many reasons you're the best!!