The "eastern edge of Spain covering Barcelona" is Catalonia ;-) (oficial names for the same number of official languages: Catalunya in Catalan, Cataluña in Spanish, Catalonha in Occitan).

In Desember I had a meeting with some Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya (ICC) managers. They were working in a new reprocessing of their aerial imagery.

ICC is the official institution in Catalonia for Cartography and placenames.

Barcelona images are better now, but there's a "hole" that was not there before. It's a military facility in the top of Montjuic Hill. 41° 21' 45'', 2° 09' 52''

Eastern part of Ohio is in high resolution now.

San Sebastian, Bilbao, Pamplona & Vitoria-gasteiz are now highres too.

As I can see, theres new imagery of Bilbo (basque country), Terceira and Sao Miguel of the Acores Islands and i think parts of South Africa are also new.

Connecticut, New Jersey, Deleware, Philadelphia Metro, and a large area around Los Angeles have been greatly updated.

Hi-res updates for Kent and Norfolk in England.

Oslo, Norway is updated. That annoying cloud is gone.

Reykjavík, Iceland has also been updated to 2006/2007 imagery.

Area centred around Woodstock in Southwestern Ontario, Canada is now high-res.

The imagery for the towns in Spain are from a company called Aerodata International Surveys

http://www.aerodata-surveys.com/aerogrid.php

Think Tours has got an update too :)

São Paulo in Brazil has also changed.

I was looking at the Formula 1 circuit there only 2 days ago and it's seems it has now inherited "that annoying cloud" AKB mentioned above :(

Updates in St. Petersburg - Russia & Torshavn - Faroe Islands

I just noticed Salt Lake City and the area around it looks pretty new, but that could be just my eyes.

Several updated European capital cities - Helsinki, Kiev, Bucharest and Riga.

Gijon and córdoba also have increasedresolution

Update for Tours in France.

More updates in: Kopenhagen region including Roskilde - Danmark; I think some french citys like Metz, Nancy, Dijon and others had an update; South Afrika Northern and Western Cape region seems updated; Terceira - Azores Islands; Almeria, Alicante, Benidorm, Castellón de la Plana, Vigo, A Coruña, Gijon, Oviedo & Santander - Spain

I just checked the NJ imagery for my house and where I work. The data is certainly newer but appears to be lower res that the old imagery.

- Sydney and surrounding areas
- Lousiana (I think?)

Bucharest, Romania has image updated

Updates to suburbs around Vancouver

San Francisco Bay Area
Portland, Oregon
Denver, Colorado are also updated.

It seems like there are several other updated areas in Spain:
1. The shoreline from Alicante to Javea.
2. Vilareal area.

Maybe Valencia as well, I'm not sure.

In the USA, the area of Norfolk and Newport News in Virginia has been updated.

The shoreline in Israel has been smoothed, I'm not sure whether there were any imagery updates in Israel. I believe there weren't.

FINALLY A SAN FRANCISCO UPDATE...
THX GUYS

Parts of Long Island NY have newer imagery. My roof went from red to black and my swimming pool shows up.

Still no high resolution cover for most of Wales. But it's there in Virtual Earth, and worth a look, so what is stopping GE?

Also still no high resolution for much of Scotland, but Virtual Earth too is limited there.

London remains in deep winter shadows, and continuing to check for new imagery elsewhere inthe UK.

I wish they would update the street maps. My neighborhood is over 4 years old now, and they have recent enough image, but really old street plans.

Looks like the whole of Sydney has received a high res update which i approx a year old judging by construction and road works in my local area. This high res update stretches up the NSW coast to Newcastle which is about 2 hours away from Sydney.

Looks like I have got some exploring to do

I THINK BANGLADESH IS NOT UPDATED FOR LONG TIME

I am once again very disappointed. No noticeable updates for Melbourne or Victoria at all. That’s twice in a row now.

But ironically, Google has done a fantastic job with Sydney. I'm glad the licencing issue was fixed and the high-res imagery now shows things such as the Lane Cove Tunnel.

Now if only Google's commitment to Sydney was the same as Melbourne, I would be happy.

Star City, east of Moscow, high resolution.

w00t!!

unfortunately, this update's imagery for newport news/norfolk is still older and lower-res than the stuff that's available on microsoft's virtual earth.

:(

Update the Canary Islands in spain, please

Jordan in middle east and part of some countries around also have new imagery.
I'm sure about Jordan because i saw it 3 days ago and now it's different, but i thing that update includes Sinai peninsula, south of Israel and Syria

Fly over England now at around 500km and you will see a patchwork of coverage often fitting administrative boundaries, which indicates that those authorities are the source of the images, much of them now at a good high resolution. But it's tricky to spot the updates without local knowledge, and you have to wonder why GE are not more up front about updates.

Some examples worth a look are Avon (around Bristol), Calderdale (around halifax), Nottinghamshire, and, maybe the best images, Portsmouth.

The new images of Kent look like early May 2007, and the countryside is yellow with blooming oil seed rape in the drive for bio fuel, and you can even spot the odd cricket match in progress.

Anywhere else as colourful?

Weird, parts of St.Petersburg (Russia) is very, very old imagery now (Prospect Veteranov part, near Pulkovo airport). It used to be newer, though lower resolution (a little bit noisier)

Also I don't know if there's some problem with my linux client, but in Barcelona, where castle of mont juic should be, there is just a black outline. weird.

Updated meaning more modern around Troy, MI Area. I see newer roads after much construction that used to be around. Older images were from 2005, Not sure when these are.

I don't know if I'd call it a "great" update for New Jersey- the coverage looks HORRIBLE in some places!

Large areas central BC have been updated, not just around the metro vancouver area.

"Updates in St. Petersburg - Russia" : Russia - Parts of St. Petersburg???

This is DOWNDATE! Now Google Earth (beta-version 4.2.0205.5730) shows very old satellite map of St. Petersburg (2003-2004 years). And earlier there was a same map, as on Google Maps (august 2007). It refers to "updating"? Tell please, that it: lie, a mistake (bug) or " the new information policy for beta-testers "?

The area around Scarborough, UK was updated last time round but worth a mention, although it's also superb in Virtual Earth birds eye view, why Scarborough gets this and other nearby, and much bigger, towns don't is strange.

But strangly satisfying :-)

Would it be possible to target Hilo, Hawaii. I am interested in the University of Hawaii-Hilo, my daughter attends the school and I would really like to see some of the sites she emails me about. Thank you, Gordon Reed

Images of Milton Delaware USA appear to be from 2005, last time I looked, a few months back, they were from Jul 2006.

i would love to see my town londonderry improved on the map =D

The New Jersey update stinks. The resolution is absolutely horrible. Guess I'll have to use TerraServer or something else. It would have been better if you left it how it was before.

The NJ update is of less resolution than what had existed before.

The original images for NJ were from a 2002 flight by the State of NJ. Not sure what the source for the current images is, but they are not as detailed. Also do not think they are much more current than 2004 or so. I had a new garage added and relocated the driveway around 2004, neither of which shows up on the current images in GE.

Go to https://njgin.state.nj.us/NJ_NJGINExplorer/index.jsp and you can download georeferenced MrSid files of the NJ 2002 files.

Hey GE what are you thinking? You gave us great stuff here in NJ and now you take it away.

Not happy

The New Jersey data is a REDUCTION in resolution, as has been noted before. It looks awful. Even worse, there are registration errors. My neck of the woods is off by about 15 meters. My models are all misplaced now, the road layer jumps off the road when roads cross on to the new images and the seams across images look terrible. The "new" imagery is still five years old, so what's the point?

how do I get up to date images on Google Earth or can anyone tell me how often they are updated, thanks,
72tr6r.

Why doesn't this site report changes in imagery in Michigan? the last 3 major updates were all overlooked by this site.

When possible, please update area around Kyogle, NSW, Australia.

Hello,

Wonder what year is that satellite map for BeiJing China? or how old of that map?

I really appreciate any help from you.

Thanks.

Hi,
Google Earth has missed the capital city of Laos, Vientiane and only has about 30% coverage, also the images are at least 5 years old do you know when they will update?

Dear Google Earth team, the latest "update" of parts of St. Petersburg (Russia) is actually rolling back to the very outdated pictures. Current edition shows really ancient pictures (much more elder than previous pictures available before the "update"), so, relevance of current pictures goes to zero!!! Could you be so kind to replace these outdated pictures with really newest ones, thank you in advance!

About St. Petersburg. Do you call it "update"? Are you kidding us? This so-called "update" is just step back to the PREVIOUS version of that map. I am an active member of Wikimapia project and I remember that map very good. For example, the Sennaya Square (http://wikimapia.org/#lat=59.926958&lon=30.318489&z=16&l=1&m=a&v=2) before reconsruction and so on. We don't need such "improvements", please return to at least previous version (about 2007 I presume) or to a really new version.

P.S. I see some similar comments here but there is no reaction at all :(

Area of Ninole, Hawaii 96773 replaced with older image. Previous image was taken between April-August 2005. Current image is early 2004. Wish there was a way to correct. Also the Zipcode doesn't register correctly.

Google Earth has not been updated for YEARS. I have checked MY address in Texas, My children's addresses and a friend in Southern California. This is also true of the Premium Version. Why bother even having this if its old ?

I would like to know when an update will be done for West coast Florida. It is 4 years old. All of the images pre 2004 hurricane season on the west Coast of florida. VERY old informaton!!!! The area has changed!

It seems Bucharest, Romania, doesn't have a street map, not mentioning subway stations. It's a capital of a EU state anyway. I was there and I found very embarrasing not having any Google Earth support. When will be available a detailed map of the city?

Took a look at Machu Picchu- resolution has degraded so badly NO detail can be seen- noticed it for other places too-going backwards, guys...