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September 23, 2009
New Google Earth Imagery - September 23
[Update Sept. 25: Google has just released the official list of locations, including the KML file that shows them all.]
We've just verified that there is new imagery in various places around the world. You can check out the Google LatLong Blog for hints on where some of the new imagery is located.
New and updated imagery (UPDATED 25-SEP 0615 ET)
- Antarctica - Dry Valleys (thanks 'Tom')
- Argentina - Cordoba and Mendoza
- Austria - Strip of new winter imagery near Tirol (thanks 'Jonas')
- Brazil - Florianopolis (thanks 'Tiago')
- Canada - Diavik Diamond Mine
- China - Lhasa (thanks 'jk')
- Finland - Various area (thanks 'cristi')
- Iceland - Some stripes of imagery
- Italy - Strip of winter imagery east of Rome
- Maldive Islands - Male' (thanks 'Alsay')
- Mozambique - Maputo (thanks 'Antonio')
- New Zealand - Te Anau (thanks 'dapascha'), and Central parts of the country, including places like Canterbury and Darfield
- Nigeria - Lagos (thanks 'Snakeye')
- Pakistan - Karachi (thanks 'Adil')
- Portugal - Madeira (thanks 'Samuel')
- Russia - Norilsk (thanks 'cristi')
- Saudi Arabia - Color corrections
- South Korea - Ulsan (thanks 'Munden')
- Ukraine - Sevastopol
- United States
- California - Mission Viejo and Ventura
- Connecticut - Central part of the state
- Delaware - Most (or all) of the State
- Florida - Large parts of the state, including: Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Marion County, Miami and part of Taylor County
- Maryland - Most of the state
- Massachusetts - Eastern 1/3 of the state
- Michigan - Metro Detroit area
- Washington - Various parts of the state
- Also, there appears to be new hi-res bathymetry off the east coast of the US - east of the continental shelf.
As you find others, please leave a comment and let us know. Because this imagery has not yet been added to Google Maps, you can compare any area in Google Earth against the same location in Google Maps to know for sure whether or not it's been updated.
Posted by mickmel at September 23, 2009 9:03 PM
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Posted by: Tiago Carraro at September 23, 2009 9:18 PM
Marion County, FL
Duval County, FL (including Jacksonville)
Part of Taylor County, FL
(probably more of FL)
South Korea: Ulsan
Ukraine: Sevastopol
Argentina: Cordoba
Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada
USA: The Maryland update is actually most of the State now that I've looked around. Even places like Annapolis that didn't initially look like an update are simply very similar. (look at construction in Parole, MD to see the differences)
Posted by: Munden at September 23, 2009 9:19 PM
USA: More notes for Florida
Port Charlotte
Miama and Fort Lauderdale are both updated. (It looks like a swath from Floriday City up to near Deerfield Beach.)
Posted by: Munden at September 23, 2009 10:04 PM
Miami Florida got new update (the new imagery is from 2009)
Posted by: kyutee at September 23, 2009 10:09 PM
Saudi Arabia: Center has been color corrected
Posted by: SittingDuck at September 24, 2009 12:23 AM
Male' (capital of Maldives Islands) has new imagery from 23 August 2009 (only a month old)
Posted by: Alsay at September 24, 2009 2:42 AM
The usual "updated areas KML" coming soon?
Posted by: Aulo at September 24, 2009 2:42 AM
Boston area/E. Massachusetts also updated
Posted by: GT at September 24, 2009 3:13 AM
Saudi-Arabia has new medium imagery, like the rest of the desert.
There are also some new winter images in austria (Tirol) and Italy, just south of the other image.
Posted by: jonas91 at September 24, 2009 5:11 AM
Massachusetts got hit with new images too:
Suffolk County, Norfolk County, Essex County, Middlesex County, and northern Plymouth County have new imagery from April 2008 (previous was July 2007).
Posted by: Tim Brastow at September 24, 2009 5:20 AM
- Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Morocco and Qatar are now covered by 2.5 m Spot Image imagery.
Posted by: Kevin51340 at September 24, 2009 5:22 AM
new imagery update:25 august 2009 in norilsk russia...
Posted by: cristi at September 24, 2009 5:37 AM
Part of Madeira Island in Portugal also got a Update!
Posted by: Samuel at September 24, 2009 5:44 AM
Dry Valleys, Antarctica is finally covered with higher resolution imagery. However, quality is still inconsistent. Better than what was there, though.
Posted by: Tom at September 24, 2009 9:12 AM
The Te Anau area in New Zealand now has Spot imagery, low resolution but finally free of clouds. Too bad the lousy re-coloring efforts around Tongariro Nat'l Park from last month's update haven't been fixed... yet, I hope!
Posted by: dapascha at September 24, 2009 1:16 PM
Lhasa is updated (with Jan 2008 imagery)
Posted by: jk at September 24, 2009 1:50 PM
Karachi, Pakistan is updated...Finally! Thanks Google
Posted by: Adil at September 24, 2009 2:12 PM
The USGS contracted aerial imagery for a good chunk of eastern Massachusetts in 2008. Massachusetts GIS (http://www.mass.gov/mgis/) made the imagery available online not too long ago. A PDF showing the areas of Massachusetts covered by this can be found here: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/coq2008_index.pdf
Posted by: Terry at September 24, 2009 2:35 PM
The new imagery at Male' is geopositioned about 12m west of the previous imagery which is more accurate.
Posted by: scott s. at September 24, 2009 4:32 PM
Lagos in Nigeria has been updated.
Posted by: Snakeye at September 24, 2009 6:52 PM
some new imagery in finland...you have to look!
Posted by: cristi at September 25, 2009 8:25 AM
Fuzhou (changle) CHina
Posted by: wal at September 25, 2009 9:56 AM
"Pucon" an small city in the south of Chile
Posted by: oSDDo at September 25, 2009 1:03 PM
Uruguay: Parts of Rio Negro (Ex. Young), Tacuarembó, Durazno and Cerro Largo.
Posted by: elagus at September 25, 2009 4:05 PM
Anchorage Alaska layers are error.
Another city's pictures appear on the city.
For example, right space of Merrill Field,
right space of Cheney Lake,
on the patterson street,etc...
there are many error layers in Anchorage.
Posted by: TETSU at September 25, 2009 7:22 PM
Zhangqiu China
Posted by: 120242pp at September 26, 2009 9:10 AM
archipelago "the minquiers" under Jersey island appear now clearly
Posted by: testhaut at September 26, 2009 9:34 AM
Bosnia & hercegovina needs new imagery update(Mostar,Banja luka,Tuzla).
Posted by: Truth at September 28, 2009 2:52 AM
Google has posted the kml file showing all areas included in this latest update. Go here:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/09/where-in-world-is-answers.html
and click on the link in the first paragraph (the word "here").
Ernie
Posted by: Ernie at September 28, 2009 11:41 AM
The new, updated imagery for Karachi is bad. It has a much poorer resolution than previously. Is there not a choice to switch back and forth between images (in wiki as well?)?
Posted by: None given at September 30, 2009 8:05 AM
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