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December 15, 2009

Imagery update in Google Earth

We've just received a few reports from readers about new imagery in Google Earth. I've verified the reports and an update indeed is in progress.

[UPDATE, 17-DEC: Google has now written their post about this update and released the KML file that shows the updated areas.]

With the previous update, there was a minor hiccup near Kirbyville, Texas, where some incorrect imagery was placed there. That has just been corrected, which seems to indicate that new imagery has been pushed out.

Some of the other updated areas include: [UPDATED 13:57 EST]

Albania: Southern part of Tirana (thanks 'Edi')
Belgium: Most major cities (thanks 'Martin' and 'Joris')
Canada: Toronto (thanks 'Shadow')
Hungary: Budapest (thanks 'twist3r')
India: Various cities (thanks 'Alok')
Lithuania: West of Kaunas and around Palanga (thanks 'LK')
Peru: Parts of Lima (thanks 'Jorge')
Poland: , Cieszyn, Krakow, Puck and Warsaw (thanks 'PaSKud', 'Dawud' and 'zbooy')
Romania: Bucharest and Timisoara (thanks 'dlhblog')
Russia: Parts of Saint Petersburg and Moscow (thanks 'RiderlLT')
Saudi Arabia: Various area (thanks 'Alsay')
UAE: Dubai (thanks 'Falko P.' and 'Edi')
United States: Large parts of Georgia (north, east), Michigan (Lansing), North Carolina (western) and South Carolina (south). (thanks 'Keith')

If you find other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!


Posted by mickmel at December 15, 2009 8:32 AM

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Comments

Maybe this Warsaw update is prepare to street view :)

Posted by: fjk at December 15, 2009 9:10 AM

They have updated Dubai Imagery to the date of August 15th 2009. So its pretty new :)

Posted by: Falko P. at December 15, 2009 9:13 AM

Parts of Saint Petersburg and Moscow in Russia. South Russia got Spot Imagery.
Some patches over Baltic States.

Posted by: RiderlLT at December 15, 2009 9:15 AM

Tirana, Albania, southern part of the city and the area around it.
Podgorica, Montenegro.
Images are of July 2009.

Posted by: Edi at December 15, 2009 9:16 AM

fjk: Maybe You're right but also it corrects the problem that was with previuos imagery which didn't line up with bird-eye images from Building Maker. All the buildings were just a little bit moved in comapare to sattelite imagery - now it is corrected.

Posted by: PaSKud at December 15, 2009 9:34 AM

Some parts of Lithuania updates - west of Kaunas and around Palanga both with July 18-19, 2009 imagery.

Posted by: LK at December 15, 2009 9:49 AM

i hope that even Italy's maps will be updated. Our country are still mapped with image from years 2002-2003 !!!

Posted by: realtebo at December 15, 2009 9:56 AM

Several updates of the northern Black Sea coast of the Caucasus (Russia):

1) Cnes/Spot image to the east of Gelendzik (somewhat cloudy, but nevertheless better then the previous low-res).

2) Cnes/Spot image to the north of Novorossiysk.

3) Beautiful GeoEye image of the city of Anapa.

All three are not on Google Maps yet.

Posted by: Mithgol the Webmaster at December 15, 2009 9:58 AM

Budapst, Hungary has also imagery from July 09

Posted by: twist3r at December 15, 2009 10:02 AM

Also some updates in Belgium in maps between Brussels and Gent.
New maps are dated 2009/07/31.

Posted by: Joris Desseyn at December 15, 2009 10:32 AM

Part of LIMA, PERU shows jan'09 imagery.

Posted by: Jorge De Albertis at December 15, 2009 10:35 AM

I am missing all the town names.

Posted by: Martin at December 15, 2009 10:45 AM

It also seems that most of older low-res (TerraMetrics?) images of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus are being replaced by medium-res Cnes/Spot Image.

Examples:

narrow stripe to the west of Abrau-Dyurso;

rectangular region to the north of Anapa;

large area to the east of Taman;

large stripe between Lermontovo and Nebug, goes farther to the north (up to Afipsky);

long and narrow stripe (goes from the west of Lazarevskoye to the east of Krasnodar);

large mountain area to the north-east of Sochi;

a rectangular area to the south of Gagra (Abkhazia).

Posted by: Mithgol the Webmaster at December 15, 2009 10:48 AM

Brussels, Gent, Antwerp, Liege, Brugge - all big citys in Belgium have imagery from july 2009.

Posted by: Martin at December 15, 2009 10:54 AM

In Poland i noticed two new strips of new imagery around Cieszyn (souther Silesian voivodeship) and Puck (northern Pomeranian voiv.)

Posted by: Dawud at December 15, 2009 11:04 AM

New imagery in Western North Carolina, Hayesville, NC area is lower resolution than previous release.

Posted by: Keith Gibby at December 15, 2009 11:43 AM

Kraków, Poland, has new imagery as well (Jun-Jul 2009), so the Street View hypothesis seems plausible :-)

Posted by: zbooy at December 15, 2009 11:49 AM

Italy has too much parts in low res and old imagery! please update whoel country as soon as possible, at least the major region-capital cities
thx
Ciao

Posted by: Andrea at December 15, 2009 11:54 AM

Nagpur, India

Posted by: Alok P at December 15, 2009 11:54 AM

Durg, Bhilai, India

Posted by: Alok P at December 15, 2009 12:08 PM

Looks like the Toronto area in Ontario, Canada has been updated

Posted by: Shadow at December 15, 2009 12:38 PM

In Poland we have also new imagery in Wroclaw, Poznan and Lodz.

Posted by: tomcioZG at December 15, 2009 12:53 PM

Saudi Arabia has new patches of imagery scattered.

including Just south of Madinah and most of Yanbu.

Posted by: Alsay at December 15, 2009 12:54 PM

KML file is comming soon???

Posted by: cristi at December 15, 2009 1:02 PM

town names seems to be AWOL

Posted by: Alsay at December 15, 2009 1:22 PM

Google is aware of the missing city names. I'd assume a KML is coming soon, but I haven't seen it yet.

Posted by: Mickey at December 15, 2009 1:52 PM

The entire island of Oahu (minus Honolulu) has been updated; also, parts of Northern/Central California and Central Pennsylvania.

Posted by: GT at December 15, 2009 2:06 PM

Ankara, Turkey updated

Posted by: me at December 15, 2009 2:26 PM

Isnt there a kml file showing all the updates?

Posted by: barakuda at December 15, 2009 2:26 PM

Montevideo, Uruguay. Apr 2009

Posted by: Enrique at December 15, 2009 2:28 PM

BRUSSELS - new iomagery is well below the quality of the old. Slide back in time to circa 2005 if you want the best

Posted by: Chris at December 15, 2009 2:52 PM

Vác, Hungary has new gorgeous, hi-res update!

Posted by: Paul Hellyer at December 15, 2009 2:58 PM

Western Skopje, Macedonia.
Images are from June 2009.

Posted by: Edi at December 15, 2009 3:13 PM

Santiago, Chile fully updated

Posted by: JP at December 15, 2009 3:25 PM

Spot imagery for southern Chile (mostly south of Santiago down to the Northern Patagonian Ice Field).

Posted by: JP at December 15, 2009 3:39 PM

Iran - Tehran

Posted by: Lurgee at December 15, 2009 4:19 PM

West of Caracsas, Venezuela

Posted by: wroman at December 15, 2009 4:50 PM

Oahu and parts of California and Pennsylvania.

Posted by: GT at December 15, 2009 5:20 PM

Zagreb has got new imagery, although only one half of the city...

Posted by: Marko at December 15, 2009 5:22 PM

Upper parts of Central Java, Indonesia have also been updated with 16 August 2009 imagery date.

Posted by: snuff at December 15, 2009 5:22 PM

Pula (Croatia) as well.

Posted by: Marko at December 15, 2009 5:29 PM

new imagery in china :

shanghai(2010 World Expo),xiamen,jinjiang、changle、fuan、wuyishan etc. ,wuxi,shangyu,hangzhou,cixi,

Posted by: yuanhang at December 15, 2009 5:51 PM

shandong,china

Posted by: yuanhang at December 15, 2009 5:58 PM

Nice to see that Belgium has got another update, my town is just included in it =)

There's also new aug 2009 imagery around Abu Dhabi in the UAE. You can see the Yas Mrina circuit and Ferrari world.

Posted by: jonas at December 15, 2009 6:30 PM

Bakersfield, California has new imagery.

Posted by: Steven at December 15, 2009 7:13 PM

There is also new imagery in northern Sudan.

Posted by: Steven at December 15, 2009 7:15 PM

Zambia has new country-wide medium resolution imagery.

Posted by: Snakeye at December 15, 2009 7:18 PM

China: New stripes around Ningbo, including a long one just east of it going down the coast.

Posted by: Munden at December 15, 2009 11:55 PM

Vicenza's (Italy) image has an error! There is a slice in the whole stripe

Posted by: Andrea at December 16, 2009 3:39 AM

There's also new medium imagery in the south part of European Russia

Posted by: jonas at December 16, 2009 4:25 AM

Kosice, Slovakia

Posted by: Marcel at December 16, 2009 5:14 AM

The Netherlands has country wide new imagery

Posted by: Maserati at December 16, 2009 5:41 AM

Poznan in Poland has new imagery.

Posted by: Rob at December 16, 2009 12:04 PM

The new Atlanta images look horrible. Taken in fall and appear way gainer and lower resolution than what existed. Color temperature looks off as well.

Posted by: Sam at December 16, 2009 12:50 PM

New images from rosario - argentina have displaced all de 3d buldings about 7-8 meters east and 4 meters south.

Posted by: german at December 16, 2009 5:08 PM

@Maserati: could you be more precise where in the Netherlands you found new imagery? I din't find any. My home tonw has the same old imagery as most of the rest of the country (from 2005).

Posted by: Muziekboot at December 16, 2009 5:15 PM

Montgomery, Alabama is updated.

Posted by: Chris at December 16, 2009 7:06 PM

Approaching 48 hours after these posts began, still no official Google announcement - nothing in Lat Long, no KML, no Google map of the updates. Are there technical problems or is too much else going on?

Watching the space, and wondering whether GEB readers will be going back to the monthly games of spot the updates

Posted by: Chris at December 16, 2009 7:11 PM

Gurgaon India has updated 2009 Image. This city has grown / changed drastically compared to the last 2006 Image.

Posted by: Dash at December 17, 2009 5:18 AM

Beirut, Lebanon now has geoeye imagery from august 31st 2009

Posted by: Georges Azzi at December 17, 2009 9:30 AM

- North of Kislovodsk, Stavropol region, Russia
- Rostov-on-Don, Russia (very nice image, summer 2009)

Posted by: xromeo at December 17, 2009 1:21 PM

Mexico: Parts of Mexico City, Hermosillo, Chihuahua, Monterrey, Torreon, Culiacan, Tequila, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Hunucma and Mexicali, kind regards!

Posted by: Enrique Silva at December 18, 2009 12:42 AM

Romania Update:

Ploiești;
Târnaveni area;
E60 Ciucea - Negreni area

Tnx

Posted by: Cristian G at December 18, 2009 5:56 AM

some parts of Saudi Arabia,Oman,Yemen,Iran,India,Sudan,Jordan,Syria,Turkey,Eastern & Southern Europe,Western Russian,Eastern China, Whole Country Of North Korea Also Has Been Updated.

Posted by: Hafeez Ullah Khan at December 20, 2009 12:31 AM

Vast parts of Russia - Northwest, Caucasus, Far East areas - now are effectively blocked from normal view by mosaics of imagery of different size, scale and taken from other locations.
Can something be done about it?
Is that a program's negligence or outside interference?

Posted by: nick at December 20, 2009 4:26 AM

there also updated in Algiers, ALGERIA in Decembre 2009

Posted by: namec at December 22, 2009 1:05 PM

Hello, I want to thank google for his efforts in this field.I got a lot of knowledge from google earth. i request the google to update the imagaes of pakistani city KOHAT,noth west province. I hope that you will provide us the Dec.2009 images of KOHAT .
Many thanks.

Posted by: james shaw at December 28, 2009 6:51 AM

Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

imagery is from 2006

Posted by: Dzk at January 3, 2010 7:57 PM

When street view from Chihuahua city Mexico would be available?

Posted by: Oscar at February 9, 2010 3:57 PM

Penang, Malaysia and also other states in Malaysia.

It still use the year 2005 map. Many things have been changed.

Posted by: tan at June 14, 2010 10:28 PM

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