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October 20, 2009
New Google Earth Imagery - October 20
We've received and verified a report of new imagery in a few places around the world. At this point, we don't yet know the scope of the update.
The new imagery is not yet visible in Google Maps, so to help find areas that have been updated simply compare the imagery in Google Earth with the imagery from the same location in Google Maps. If they're different, that means the imagery in Google Earth is new. If you find a new area, please leave a comment below and let us know.
UPDATED: Google has just posted their monthly quiz on the LatLong Blog. Check it out and see what areas you can discover.
New and updated imagery [UPDATED 21-OCT 07:23 ET]
- Algeria: Thanks 'Jonas'
- Argentina: Goya and Reconquista - Thanks 'McMaster_de'
- Bolivia: Southern part of the country - Thanks 'Thilo'
- Brazil: Including Belo Hoizonte, Maraba and Rondonopolis - Thanks 'Jonas' and 'McMaster_de'
- China: Northern part of the country - Thanks 'Steven'
- Estonia: Thanks 'Cristi'
- Iceland: Thanks 'Thilo'
- India: Mumbai - Thanks 'Munden'
- Indonesia: Surabaya - Thanks 'okasbali'
- Kazakhstan
- Laos: Southern part of the country - Thanks 'Donalbain'
- Latvia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Mozambique: Most of the country - Thanks 'Antonia'
- Niger
- Poland: Most of the country appears to be updated, aside from major cities
- Romania: Cluj and Brasov - Thanks 'Cristian' and 'Twist3r'
- Russia: Various locations - Thanks 'McMaster_de'
- Sri Lanka: Hambantota, Trincomalee and a few other areas - Thanks 'McMaster_de' and 'Martin'
- Sudan
- United Kingdom: Blackburn, EastBourne, Southern Wilkshire, West Yorkshire - Thanks 'Munden', 'Ozybolairy' and 'Damien'
- United States: Areas of Texas along the Coastline (Corpus Christi, south of Houston, among others) and parts of North Carolina
- Uruguay: Central part of the country - Thanks 'JP'
Posted by mickmel at October 20, 2009 3:45 PM
Comments
Posted by: cristi at October 20, 2009 3:53 PM
New spot imagery in the whole country of Iceland, except for a few strips and also some in the northeastern part of China.
One of the answers from the latlong quiz is
Belo Horizonte, Brasil. The stadium seen in the picture is called 'Mineirinho'.
Posted by: jonas91 at October 20, 2009 4:40 PM
India: Mumbai
UK: Liverpool, Manchester, Blackburn
Also, UK SE Coast: Eastbourne (Rookery Hill to Camber)
Posted by: Munden at October 20, 2009 4:42 PM
Spot imagery for Iceland, Libya, large area in northern Kazakhstan, northern Manchuria
Posted by: Thilo at October 20, 2009 4:48 PM
UK: Yes to Blackburn, but Liverpool and Manchester were mistakes thanks to the timeslider. They weren't updated
Posted by: Munden at October 20, 2009 4:57 PM
Spot imagery for southern Bolivia
Posted by: Thilo at October 20, 2009 4:58 PM
Eastbourne, UK
Posted by: Ozybolairy at October 20, 2009 5:13 PM
GeoEye imagery in Surabaya, Indonesia
Cirebon is updated too.
Posted by: okasbali at October 20, 2009 5:18 PM
Southern Laos (looks like spotimage).
Posted by: Donalbain at October 20, 2009 5:29 PM
Coastal areas south of Houston, Texas have been updated as well. I utilize Google Earth extensively to get to fishing / hunting spots with my GPS unit. Previously you could actualy see "ripples" in the water surface of the bays. The "ripples" were the chop across the bay. With this new update the quality has gone down considerably. It the same when I look at my home. Where I could previously clearly see the barn in my backyard, now all you see if a hazy white blob. To me, an update with poor quality images is not even an update. Huge step back in my opinion.
Posted by: Hendu at October 20, 2009 5:42 PM
UK - East Sussex - the new 2009 imagery is disappointingly 'bleached', oddly coloured, and less clear in comparison with the 2004 imagery it replaces (see history), and it seems that this is a result of Google trying too hard to give 'natural' colourisation.
Beat to leave the images as photographed, when the look of the landscape changes so much through the year in any case.
Posted by: Chris at October 20, 2009 7:38 PM
Northern China has gotten new imagery.
Posted by: Steven at October 20, 2009 7:40 PM
Most of West Yorkshire has has updated Terrain imagery (Areas surrounding Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, & Wakefield)
Posted by: Damien McBarron at October 20, 2009 7:41 PM
The imagery introduced last month for Argentina has been recolorized: no more horrible blue tint!
Posted by: Forke at October 20, 2009 8:19 PM
Central Uruguay has gotten some two-month old GeoEye strips to complement previous half-year old GeoEye imagery.
Posted by: JP at October 20, 2009 9:19 PM
Poland looks awesome lol
Posted by: web designer at October 20, 2009 11:24 PM
UK: Southern Wiltshire, including areas such as Salisbury and Stonehenge.
Posted by: Munden at October 20, 2009 11:32 PM
In Romania, there are at least two new towns with 21 September 09 imagery : Brașov and Cluj-Napoca.
Posted by: twist3r at October 21, 2009 1:02 AM
It would be great to see imagery updated in South Africa!
Posted by: Earl at October 21, 2009 1:50 AM
There has been a massive update of the imagery of Mozambique, most of the country is now covered in "mid-resolution" (instead of low resolution before). The limits of the new update are visible (roughly corresponding to the borders of the country) as they are is a slightly different shade of green.
Posted by: Antonio Teixeira at October 21, 2009 3:00 AM
Argentina: Goya & Reconquista
Posted by: McMaster_de at October 21, 2009 3:25 AM
Brazil: Rondonopolis, Barretos, Maraba, Imperatritz
Posted by: McMaster_de at October 21, 2009 3:32 AM
Romania: Cluj and Brasov city with 2009 images.
Posted by: Cristian G at October 21, 2009 4:33 AM
Russia:
North of Chelyabinsk
Southwest of Omsk
Southwest of Novosibirsk
North of Orsk
Posted by: McMaster_de at October 21, 2009 6:53 AM
Sri Lanka: Tricomalee and Southeastern Part
Posted by: McMaster_de at October 21, 2009 6:56 AM
Sri Lanka (Hambantota and north of it). There may be more.
Posted by: Martin at October 21, 2009 7:05 AM
There's also new med-res spot imagery for an area in Brazil containing the SE of the state of Pará, almost the whole Tocantins and the north of Mato Grosso. These images are identical to the ones added to Argentina last update.
Posted by: Rafael S. at October 21, 2009 10:20 AM
Papua New Guinea: Port Moresby
Posted by: McMaster_de at October 21, 2009 1:14 PM
Mumbai has a very odd color. Nice though.
Posted by: Web designer at October 21, 2009 1:32 PM
Posted by: twist3r at October 21, 2009 2:00 PM
USA: Kent, Washington
Posted by: McMaster_de at October 21, 2009 2:28 PM
USA: Licking County, Ohio
Posted by: McMaster_de at October 21, 2009 3:38 PM
The med-res imagery for Poland is a little bit old because one of new highways is absent on photos while it was built last year.
Posted by: PaSKud at October 22, 2009 5:57 AM
argentina was recolored?
Posted by: felipe at October 22, 2009 6:09 AM
Okay so there was a Google Earth Imagery update on Oct 20th.
No significant coverage for Pakistan this time, except for some remote desert regions and the town of Panjgur etc.
Whats surprising is how recent the imagery is.
Panjgur imagery is from 9th August 2009...yes 2 0 0 9! And if you look at it in Google Maps, you can zoom in ALL the WAY to the END...i.e. to 100ft scale in Google Maps.
Here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=26.968372,64.101386&spn=0.001453,0.003852&z=19
Imagery for Burewala in Punjab is from 26th of September 2009...WHOA!!! Only if Burewala was Lahore or Karachi or Islamabad!
Other imagery generally tops out at 200 feet and zooming further says no more imagery at that zoom level! eg. Lahore
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Lahore,+Pakistan&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.174768,92.724609&ie=UTF8&split=0&hq=&hnear=Lahore,+Sheikhupura,+Pakistan&ll=31.500624,74.365774&spn=0.002781,0.007703&t=h&z=18
I'm guessing since these were desert type/rural regions and did not have that high a value, google just dumped the latest 2009 imagery there or maybe it was trial imagery? But what was the source of this I am wondering. It appears to be a satellite in a not so conventional orbit since the image strips are Horizontal and not vertical like all earlier updates so the orbit of the satellite is equatorial rather than polar.
Any explanations?
Posted by: momers at October 23, 2009 1:25 AM
Cipularang toll road area in West Java, Indonesia have also been updated.
Posted by: Snuffy at October 25, 2009 4:13 PM
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entire poland with spot image....also estonia,lathvia and lithuania.....