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January 28, 2010
New Google Earth Imagery - January 28
Thanks to some sharp-eyed readers ('Alok' in particular), we find ourselves with fresh imagery in Google Earth!
[UPDATE 1-FEB -- The "updated areas" KML file is now available. Download it here
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We know for sure that parts of India have been updated (Bhopal, in particular), but there's certainly many other areas as well. If you find any other updated regions, please leave a comment and let us know.
As always, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not a specific area is fresh. This new imagery isn't in Google Maps yet, so 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 -- It seems that the new imagery is now in Maps too, so we'll have to wait for them to update the official KML to see what else is new]
We'll keep this post updated with the list of new areas, so let us know what you can find!
[UPDATED -- 28-Jan, 9:34pm EST]
- India: Bhopal (thanks 'Alok')
- New Zealand: Much of central-north Canterbury including Lyttelton, Rolleston, Rangiora, Amberly, Woodend, Darfield, Burnham - but excluding Christchurch (thanks 'railfan990')
- Mauritius: About 75% of the island was updated (thanks 'Thierry')
- Romania: Targu Mures (thanks 'Cristian')
- Russia: Part of Moscow (thanks 'RiderLT')
- United Kingdom: Large part of West Yorkshire, and some of North Yorkshire. Leeds/Bradford/Keighley/Skipton (thanks 'Jimmy_Lemon')
- United States: Cape Canaveral, FL (thanks 'Munden'), parts of California and Arizona (thanks 'Steven')
- Venezuela: Barcelona (thanks 'Snakeye')
Posted by mickmel at January 28, 2010 4:16 PM
Comments
Posted by: Munden at January 28, 2010 4:51 PM
Some of the other areas that are claimed to be updates are already in Google Maps, including my mention of Cape Canaveral. I don't know what to make of it, since Google HAS updated both at the same time in the past. Maybe it was a recent update I missed, I don't know.
Posted by: Munden at January 28, 2010 4:53 PM
Romania: Targu Mures - west area (already in Maps too)
Posted by: Cristian G at January 28, 2010 4:54 PM
Part of Moscow and 1 week old imagery of Haiti, other that added before.
Posted by: RiderLT at January 28, 2010 5:03 PM
UK - Large part of West Yorkshire, and some of North Yorkshire. Leeds/Bradford/Keighley/Skipton area.
Posted by: Jimmy_Lemon at January 28, 2010 5:07 PM
P.S.:Just noticed, that new imagery is already available in Google Maps, for the first time they made new imagery available for both services in a matter of few hours.
Posted by: RiderLT at January 28, 2010 5:11 PM
New Zealand - Much of central-north Canterbury including Lyttelton, Rolleston, Rangiora, Amberly, Woodend, Darfield, Burnham - but excluding Christchurch. Images from several different dates.
Posted by: railfan990 at January 28, 2010 5:30 PM
Mauritius - About 75% of the island was updated.
Posted by: Thierry at January 28, 2010 6:11 PM
The Eastern part of the Los Angeles, California greater area and Yuma,
Arizona has been updated.
Posted by: Steven at January 28, 2010 8:04 PM
Barcelona, Venezuela, has new hi-res imagery (taken in November), showing Venezuela's new fighters.
Posted by: Snakeye at January 28, 2010 8:18 PM
West Cornwall in the UK has been updated.
Posted by: Fal at January 29, 2010 2:07 AM
i know it whenever they put new imagery,
the globe will become blurry when i first open it. whenever this happens, i rush to this site to confirm it :).
but yesterday when it happened and i came here, there was nothing about it. so i thought, may be i was wrong, and checked the places i know if there was any new imagery, and i couldn't find any.
but i was right after all, there IS new imagery
Posted by: Alsay at January 29, 2010 2:15 AM
Romania - Barlad and east of Barlad.
Posted by: spiderpc at January 29, 2010 2:24 AM
UK - Some areas to the north of Gatwick airport have been updated.
Posted by: G at January 29, 2010 3:30 AM
Lithuania: small update south of Plunge with August 28, 2009 imagery.
Posted by: LK at January 29, 2010 3:51 AM
[Italy]: S-E part of Sicily has got new imagery
Posted by: Endriu at January 29, 2010 4:00 AM
[Italy]: S-E part of Emilia Romagna near Faenza
Posted by: Endriu at January 29, 2010 4:10 AM
Romania:Pitesti update imagery.
Posted by: Bogdan at January 29, 2010 4:30 AM
Ulcinj in Montenegro, also the region south of Shkodra in Albania. Images are from GeoEye (Aug 22, 2009).
Posted by: Edi at January 29, 2010 4:54 AM
Venezuela: Barcelona and Mochima
Posted by: wroman at January 29, 2010 5:24 AM
I found by chance an update around San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina I don't know however whether it is the latest update or an earlier one.
Posted by: hhgygy at January 29, 2010 8:36 AM
Walton-on-Thames, UK updated imagery in Google Maps. At last!
Posted by: Colin W at January 29, 2010 10:16 AM
@Jimmy Lemon
Keighley and surrounding areas were update several months ago, this isn't new, as in this very update.
Posted by: The Druid at January 29, 2010 2:51 PM
Indonesia: proper Manado, N. Sulawesi have updated imagery
(Aremania-Jakmania One Heart. Anti racism)
Posted by: okasbali at January 29, 2010 4:17 PM
Parts of Herefordshire and Oxfordshire in the UK are updated.
Posted by: Peter at January 29, 2010 4:32 PM
UK - most of Surrey has new, good high res imagery from late May 2009.
Posted by: Chris at January 29, 2010 6:33 PM
UK - the whole of Oxfordshire has high res imagery from late May 2009 which appears to be an update.
Posted by: Chris at January 29, 2010 6:45 PM
Pleiku in Vietnam also has new hi-res imagery.
Posted by: snakeye at January 29, 2010 9:11 PM
They sometimes ruin perfectly good imagery by processing it incorrectly. I don't know when this happened, as I haven't looked at this particular location in GE for several months, but this place used to have very nice snowy winter imagery:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.07432,25.601114&z=15&t=h&hl=en
And now they gave it some completely unnatural looking ugly greenish-grey look, and actually reduced the quality and level of detail considerably ...
It ought to look similar to this (as it used to):
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.854166,26.18923&z=15&t=h&hl=en
I wish somebody actually looked at those images before just processing them automatically!
Posted by: Disappointed at January 30, 2010 7:21 AM
Bali ( Kuta, Sanur, Denpasar and Jimbaran areas) have new imagery
Posted by: snuff at January 30, 2010 12:07 PM
Llyodminister Alberta Canada - Alberta side of the border
Posted by: jg at January 31, 2010 1:25 AM
Romania:Caracal.
Posted by: Eugen at January 31, 2010 3:57 AM
we have kml for this updates?they update imagery foe few days but still no kml:(:(:(
Posted by: cristi at January 31, 2010 9:19 AM
Sad to see that Lyttelton, New Zealand got painted green by the much dreaded, ugly, unnatural green brush. A pretty rough job too when you look north of the ranges surrounding Lyttelton.
Posted by: Dinther at January 31, 2010 2:49 PM
The "latest Imagery" network link now has the Jan. 28 imagery locations. Use the link you surely have in your placemark list.
If you don't have it, this might work:
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/latest_update.km
Posted by: Ernie at February 1, 2010 12:45 PM
It looks like the imagery for Cape Kennedy is older than what was previous there.
If you check the image date for the "new imagery" it shows Dec 31, 2006. In the timeline going back to the previous imagery it shows it was taken May 8, 2007
Posted by: Jody at February 1, 2010 2:43 PM
Posted by: Leonardo Daniel Leidi at February 1, 2010 6:52 PM
The 28 January imagery update has appeared automatically in my placemarks sometime in the last 24 hours, which is nice, but it would be nicer to have had some information from Google that this was how the information was being disseminated now.
However, there seems to be an error in the file as the new late May 2009 imagery in West Yorkshire UK is not outlined.
Posted by: Chris at February 1, 2010 7:17 PM
New various cities with images from 1943 can be seen in the Timeslider modus.
Posted by: Sladys at February 2, 2010 5:40 AM
Here are all cities to be seen in Timeslider mode for dec. 1943:
Germany: Hamburg, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Freiburg, Koblenz Dortmund, Lübeck, Kiel, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Frankfurt/Main, Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Bamberg, Regensburg, Göttingen, Kehl, Magdeburg, Dessau, Leipzig, Dresden and more of Berlin.
France: Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Lyon.
Italy: Torino, Florence, Naples, Bologna, Rome.
Posted by: Sladys at February 2, 2010 7:45 AM
Within the last 12 hours a post on the Google Lat-Long blog has appeared with information on the "February" update via plug-in, a KML or Google Map versions. This is actually the 28 January update, but it is good to have the 'official' version, which I don't think we had for the 13 January update.
There is no mention, however, that latest imagery will be updated automatically in Places once a KML is installed, which appears to have happened at the end of January.
Posted by: Chris at February 2, 2010 8:42 AM
Chris:
Starting with the Jan 13 imagery update, Google changed the kml from a static placemark to a network link with two parts, the current imagery update, and the list of all previous updates. As a network link, you should assume that the placemark labled "latest imagery" would call up the most current placemark as soon as it was changed on the web server. Simply right-click and choose "refresh". Eventually, you'll get the latest.
Posted by: Ernie at February 2, 2010 10:12 AM
Ernie - thanks for the explanation. That's exactly what has happened. and it's very convenient. But my point is that Google oddly do not seem to have publicised this useful change anywhere, for example in the lat-ong blog which is an obvious place.
Posted by: Chris at February 3, 2010 10:43 AM
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I think Cape Canaveral got an update to higher resolution imagery. It looks more clear and certainly different now at any rate.