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July 14, 2009
Google Releases Details on July Imagery Update in KML
Google has for a long time only released a written summary of a portion of the updates for their imagery updates. Here is their text details for this update. But, for the first time, after who knows how many people have asked for it, Google has released a KML file 
that outlines (in red) the areas of new imagery for the July release! Now you can tell just how much of the globe was covered by this update. After four years of following Google Earth imagery updates closely, I can tell you this kind of coverage to the imagery updates is probably typical in their monthly updates.
Hopefully now everyone can better appreciate the gift of data Google is presenting to us all with these amazing imagery updates. You also can get a better sense of just how big the planet is by just trying to look at a portion of just the updated areas. I hope Google will continue to release their updates with a KML file like this!
By the way, GEB readers discovered many of the regions in this update over the weekend. Read the details we discovered, and some of the issues found with some of the changes.
Posted by FrankTaylor at July 14, 2009 10:18 PM
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Posted by: Forke at July 14, 2009 11:10 PM
Nice feature.. but I noticed on the red area's the images are sometimes as old as 2004.. so where are the updates?
Posted by: Alex van Es at July 15, 2009 12:23 AM
Thanks for the info! Now this is one truly welcome step from Google! No more guessing work and it also allows to draw some attention to remote regions that we otherwise wouldn't know were updated and wouldn't had looked at. But now that there are some red rectangles in some remote regions we go and take a look and possibly learn something new about that country or area.
Posted by: Aulo at July 15, 2009 4:08 AM
KML - very welcome, although it nay take away some of the fun of update spotting, but...
... the GE announcement does not make clear whether or not this is a one off or will be a regular featurs. They need every encouragement to make it routine.
All being well, GEB readers can now focus more on issues over the imagery such as the unfortunate reference in the update announcements to coastal cutting (masking) as being "prettier" !
Posted by: Chris at July 15, 2009 8:08 AM
I think it would be interesting to know how many images it take to make up Google Earth. I have searched but not found this info. Do you or anybody else know?
Posted by: Bruce Kendall at August 19, 2009 8:54 AM
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I love it, I always wanted something like this. Its amazing the amount of new imagery all over the world.