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January 12, 2010
New Google Earth Imagery - January 12
It appears that the first imagery update of 2010 is upon us. As pointed out by sharp-eyed reader 'Kevin', parts of northern France have been updated.
I'm sure there are many other areas as well, but I've yet to track them out. As you discover updated regions, please leave us a comment and let us know.
This new imagery isn't in Google Maps yet, so remember that you can compare Earth vs. Maps to see what's new; the fresh imagery is already in Google Earth, but the old imagery is still in Google Maps. If you compare the two side-by-side and they're not identical, that means that you've found a freshly updated area in Google Earth!
[UPDATE -- 13-Jan, 5:09pm EST]
The KML file
has been updated, so you can see the location of all of the fresh imagery.
- Albania: Tirana (thanks 'Edi')
- France: Various areas
- Germany: City of Chermnitz (thanks 'Kevin')
- Macedonia: Skopje (thanks 'Edi')
- Poland: Pila (thanks 'PaSKud')
- Romania: Botosani (thanks 'twist3r')
- Russia: Novorossiysk and Krymsk (thanks 'Mithgol')
- Saudi Arabia: Madinah (thanks 'Alsay')
- Sweden: Southern parts
- United States: Fresno, California (thanks 'David'), Austin, Texas (thanks 'Spencer')
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Posted by mickmel at January 12, 2010 7:55 AM
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Posted by: Kevin at January 12, 2010 9:02 AM
Fresno, Ca. and the surrounding area have been updated with 2009 imagery.
Posted by: David at January 12, 2010 10:05 AM
Kapustin Yar Missile Test Range - Russia
Posted by: Sean O'Connor at January 12, 2010 10:10 AM
Re: The Fresno update. It's a BIG area that's updated. Selma, Ca. is 15 miles south of Fresno, and we too have updated imagery.
That imagery had to have been taken on a Friday considering the City Hall parking lot is empty.
Due to budget cuts, our City Hall is now closed on Fridays.
The resolution is much higher too.
Posted by: Gary at January 12, 2010 11:19 AM
Botoșani, Romania
Posted by: twist3r at January 12, 2010 11:31 AM
Austin, TX has been updated with 2009 imagery.
Posted by: Spencer at January 12, 2010 11:48 AM
Russia, Novorossiysk and Krymsk, GeoEye image (dated Jun 10, 2009).
Posted by: Mithgol the Webmaster at January 12, 2010 12:02 PM
Tirana, Albania.
Skopje, Macedonia.
Posted by: Edi at January 12, 2010 12:37 PM
Some Cities of the Netherlands like:
Dordrecht,Rotterdam,Zaanstad,Haarlem
or is this from an older update?
Posted by: McMaster_de at January 12, 2010 1:55 PM
The update in France (Marne) announced above, was released on the august 24 2009 update. I see nothing new today.
Posted by: Fromage at January 12, 2010 2:27 PM
Madinah, Saudi Arabia
Posted by: Alsay at January 12, 2010 2:42 PM
Eastern part of Kasachstan including the USSR atomic test area near Semey / Semipalatinsk.
Posted by: Ernst M. Kofler at January 12, 2010 2:59 PM
kml file is comming soon???
Posted by: cristi at January 12, 2010 3:15 PM
Fromage -- I can't vouch for Marne, but I know that the "Pargny-sur-Saulx" area of France is fresh, which is why I've just said "various" for now.
McMaster -- Those areas in the Netherlands were from the mid-December update last month.
Posted by: Mickey at January 12, 2010 3:19 PM
cristi -- I would expect they'll just update the current KML file (which is actually a network link), so just download it and refresh often. :)
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml
When it's updated (or they happen to release a different file), I'll be sure to update the post.
Posted by: Mickey at January 12, 2010 3:21 PM
Southern half of Saskatchewan, Canada has been updated with medium resolution.
Posted by: J W at January 12, 2010 3:29 PM
France :
north of Var Department
Posted by: jlb at January 12, 2010 3:50 PM
Croatia.. middle area
Posted by: Demiklc at January 12, 2010 4:24 PM
Poland - near Piła
Posted by: PaSKud at January 12, 2010 4:31 PM
Actually, Kevin, the city in Germany is called Chemnitz (maybe a typing mistake ;) . Furthermore the area of Chemnitz isn't updated. The picture was released already last year. Unfortunately i didn't discoverd any new imagery in germany :(....
Posted by: Falko P. at January 12, 2010 4:33 PM
thank's....i will wait until new kml appear!
Posted by: cristi at January 12, 2010 4:42 PM
Fromage -> Yes, the aerial imagery in Marne has been updated in August, 2009 thanks to IGN but it was a 2004 imagery. This one is a 2009 imagery.
You can compare it with the historical layer in Google Earth ;)
Posted by: Kevin at January 12, 2010 7:14 PM
The southern part of Alberta in Canada, Montgomery in Alabama, and Amarillo in Texas. Sacramento, California looks like it has major changes. Here are plans for a future update:
* Southeast Oregon
* Northern Chad
* Recolor in Northern India
* More African countries with Spot imagery
* Alaska with Higher-res imagery
* More of the Los Angeles greater area (this is where I live)
Posted by: Steven at January 12, 2010 7:31 PM
Yep, Sean. September 25, 2009 was a Friday.
Posted by: GT at January 12, 2010 8:11 PM
Qatar, Ad-Dahirah: There's a new strip of GeoEye data running East-West across Qatar. It includes Ad-Dahirah where the updates they're making to the seawall at their oil terminal are easily apparent.
Posted by: Munden at January 12, 2010 8:20 PM
Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod updated with Jun 9 2009 pic (previous pic had lot of clouds)
Posted by: jk at January 12, 2010 8:34 PM
South of Cancun, Mexico
Posted by: Enrique Silva at January 12, 2010 10:27 PM
I noticed some earlier 2009 update of western part of the Kiev, Ukraine and its suburbs. Didn't see any remarks about that in previous imaginery update posts.
Posted by: Ruslan at January 13, 2010 2:33 AM
Lithuania, south-west of Kaunas updated with April 4, 2009 imagery.
Posted by: LK at January 13, 2010 7:55 AM
Russia - southern part of Moscow (Butovo)
Posted by: dars-dm at January 13, 2010 11:43 AM
Nothing 'official' from Google yet - listing, KML or map? Was there anything for the previous update, or are Google losing interest in providing such information?
Posted by: Chris at January 13, 2010 4:46 PM
The Google Map layer has been updated. Wait and see...
Posted by: Kevin at January 13, 2010 5:03 PM
PS : The KML file has been updated too - http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml
Posted by: Kevin at January 13, 2010 5:04 PM
The KML has now been updated. It shows the imagery outlines for 13th January 2010.
Posted by: Pete at January 13, 2010 5:09 PM
KML - thanks for the link, and nice to see a dozen or so departments in France with updates.
But where has Google publish the KML, as it does not seem to have appeared in the 'official' Lat-long blog as previiously, along with the 'where on earth' quiz and listings of updates, plus a link to a Google Map version of the KML latterly?
Posted by: Chris at January 14, 2010 7:39 AM
Holy crap at fresno update! The images used to be from 2003 or 2004 so they were terribly outdated. So much so, that I was using Bing!!!
Posted by: JJ at January 15, 2010 4:28 AM
Zheleznovodsk, Yessentuki, Pyatigorsk (Stavropol region), Russia
Posted by: xromeo at January 15, 2010 9:26 AM
Romania:
- some parts in Mehedinti area
- Corabia city and surroundings
- area between Pitesti, Câmpulung and Târgoviște
- some parts in Vaslui and Bacău area
- some parts from Galați
- some parts from Tulcea
Posted by: Cristian G at January 17, 2010 6:53 AM
The new imagery on Google is amazing! The area around my house in Austin is literally less than 3 months old!! I work for a government entity that fly's aerials every year (and provides Google with imagery some times) and the imagery on google maps right now is more up to date than our 09' imagery (not as good res but that's what you get from Sat imagery). Does anyone know what Satellite was used for this imagery??
Thanks,
Sean
Austin, TX
Posted by: Seen at January 23, 2010 2:02 PM
The golden ears bridge was built and completed in july 2009, and unbelieveably its still in 2008 mode in the images of when the connectors weren't even built let alone the bridge.
Posted by: AK47 at February 14, 2010 2:52 AM
Atlanta, GA, USA. Updated Apr 9!
Posted by: yos233 at May 14, 2010 12:03 PM
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I have discovered some other areas :
Sweden :
South of Sweden (0,5 meter resolution)
France :
Departements of Marne (0,5 meter resolution)
Germany :
City of Chermnitz
To be continued... ;)