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February 23, 2010
New Google Earth Imagery - February 23
It seems that Google has just pushed out some fresh imagery for Google Earth. We've only found a little bit of it so far, but there's certainly more out there.
[UPDATE 24-FEB -- The "updated areas" KML file is now available. Download it here
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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!
[UPDATED -- 23-Feb, 8:05pm EST]
- Argentina: Just west of Buenos Aires (thanks 'Leonardo') and San Rafael, Mendoza (thanks 'carlos')
- Brazil: Tubarão and Laguna (thanks 'Tiago')
- China: Parts of Hainan Island (thanks 'Munden')
- Croatia: Zadar (thanks 'Nono')
- France: Grenoble (thanks 'yves')
- Indonesia: Western part of Bali, among others (thanks 'okasbali')
- Japan: Sasebo (thanks 'Munden')
- Poland: Warsaw (thanks 'Kaczor')
- Romania: Galati (thanks 'Cristian')
- Russia: North and northeast of Saint Petersburg (thanks 'Rider')
- United States: California (near Bakersfield - thanks 'GT'), Texas (Austin - thanks 'Steven') and along the gulf coast (thanks 'Munden')
As I said, there are likely many other areas with recent updates. If you find any, leave a comment and let us know!
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Posted by mickmel at February 23, 2010 3:01 PM
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Posted by: Eric at February 23, 2010 3:53 PM
Zadar, Croatia
Posted by: Nono at February 23, 2010 4:00 PM
Romania: Galati (Apr 30, 2009 image)
Posted by: Cristian G at February 23, 2010 4:16 PM
San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina updated Jan 11, 2010 image
Posted by: carlos Simonovich at February 23, 2010 4:37 PM
Tandil, Argentina
Posted by: 3Done at February 23, 2010 4:59 PM
Poland: Warsaw
Posted by: Kaczor at February 23, 2010 5:16 PM
Corrientes City, Corrientes Province, Argentina.
Posted by: pertile at February 23, 2010 5:33 PM
The San Joaquin Valley portion of Kern County, CA, has updated imagery from this past October.
Posted by: GT at February 23, 2010 5:44 PM
Indonesia: Western part of Bali, Semarang (bad quality because clouds) & Serang Banten (cloudy iamgery too)
(Aremania-Jakmania One Heart)
Posted by: okasbali at February 23, 2010 5:51 PM
The cities of Tubarão and Laguna - Santa Catarina state - in South Brazil, were updated with mid 2009 images!
Posted by: Tiago at February 23, 2010 6:35 PM
China: Hainan Island got two strips of GeoEye imagery on the NE part of the island including Wengchang and north.
Posted by: Munden at February 23, 2010 7:09 PM
Japan: Sasebo
Posted by: Munden at February 23, 2010 7:15 PM
USA: Gulf Coast from just west of Mobile AL to just east of Pensacola, FL
Posted by: Munden at February 23, 2010 7:18 PM
New imagery:Grenoble France
Posted by: yves at February 23, 2010 7:23 PM
Texas: Austin (updated with November 2009 imagery)
Posted by: Steven at February 23, 2010 7:31 PM
Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei.
Posted by: Max at February 23, 2010 10:20 PM
I've noticed some parts of Ukraine (yet dated by 2009 but just added to Earth)
- Chernivtsi city and region's western part
- Kiev (Kyiv) - two imaginery updates, one for left eastern part (left bank of the river), more fresh one for the remaining western side. So now, Kiev is covered entirely with fresh images
Posted by: Ruslan at February 24, 2010 2:25 AM
Shkodra, largest city in Northern Albania (Apr 15, 2009).
Area between Skopje and Tetovo in Macedonia (Sep 24, 2009).
Posted by: Edi at February 24, 2010 3:42 AM
Gjakova, Kosovo (Nov 18, 2009).
Posted by: Edi at February 24, 2010 3:46 AM
Vozrozhdeniya Island,Kazakhstan .
Posted by: Bogdan at February 24, 2010 4:45 AM
The BBC is reporting new imagery of the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8530165.stm. However, it is also visible in Google Maps. Cheers, Reggie
Posted by: Reggie Thomson at February 24, 2010 5:17 AM
São Tomé Island capital (with the same name) and surroundings updated. Nice green colours.
Posted by: Luís at February 24, 2010 5:33 AM
Tianjin city of China updated.
Posted by: yoyos at February 24, 2010 6:13 AM
New Caledonia: Noumea
Posted by: Valentin at February 24, 2010 7:43 AM
Reggie -- I saw that story too, but the imagery seems to be the same imagery that's been there for years. Maybe the BBC just "discovered" it? Not sure what's up with that story...
Posted by: Mickey at February 24, 2010 8:17 AM
UK new imagery - Orkney Islands
Posted by: G at February 24, 2010 10:14 AM
Georgia - Gudauta
Posted by: Sean O'Connor at February 24, 2010 10:46 AM
Palagruza Island, Croatia
KML is out
Posted by: Bill at February 24, 2010 1:26 PM
Marin County, CA, now has high-quality terrain.
Posted by: GT at February 24, 2010 1:50 PM
List of all updated areas:
http://mw1.gohttp://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/02-24-2010_Imagery_Update.kmz
Posted by: xromeo at February 24, 2010 2:27 PM
Gudauta is not Georgia, sorry.
Posted by: apakin at February 24, 2010 2:35 PM
The network link has been changed to show this most recent imagery update.
Posted by: Mun at February 24, 2010 4:57 PM
Latest imagery 24 February installed automatically in places within the last 12 hours.
Very little new to see in Europe, though there may be some re-colouring. But there are two areas of very poor, dark new 2009 imagery in Skye and South Uist Scotland, with similar in Ireland. Why do Google do this? Switch to history if you actually want to see these places.
Posted by: Chris at February 24, 2010 5:09 PM
Wuhan, China
Posted by: Cristobal Jordan at February 24, 2010 5:29 PM
New imagery in many parts of RIO DE JANEIRO. Images from May 23rd to September 1st
Posted by: Vinicius Tripári at February 24, 2010 10:56 PM
I'm disappointed with the some Indonesia updated imagery. It's either has clouds ubiquitiously or weird colors
Posted by: Snuff at February 25, 2010 6:33 PM
China:
Harbin - Heilongjiang Province
Shenyang,Dalian - Liaoning Province
Tianjin
Ji'nan,Jining,Zaozhuang,Qufu - Shandong Province
Hefei - Anhui Province
Wuxi,Suzhou - Jiansu Province
Jinshan - Shanghai
Hangzhou,S. of Dancheng,Dongtou Islangs, - Zhejiang Province
Xiapu,Longyan - Fujian Province
Chaozhou,Jieyang,Dongguan Shenzheng,Leizhou - Guangdong Province
Wenchang,Bo'ao,Dongfang,Sanya,Jiusuo,N. of Hainan Province - Hainan Province
Kunming - Yunnan Province
S. of Guiyang - Guizhou Province
N. of Chongqing City
Xi'an,Yan'an,Yulin - Shannxi Province
Some Islands in South China Sea
Posted by: Zdk at February 26, 2010 1:39 AM
They have updated the imagery for Shillong, Meghalaya in India. I am so happy for this one. The earlier imagery had clouds over some parts of the city. Now everything is clear of the cloud cover.
Posted by: Sumit Bajoria at February 27, 2010 4:28 AM
Empty quarter in UAE area to be updated
Posted by: Manoharan at March 2, 2010 4:03 AM
Please update the area of Haripur, Pakistan. Update the new imagenery of Haripur. Thanks
Posted by: M. Saleem at March 27, 2010 4:40 AM
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OMG - my cabin in Canada is finally visible. Looks like all of the area north of Peterborough, ON has been updated to high res (now dated 2010), including the Kawatha Signature Park.