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April 27, 2010
New Google Earth Imagery - April 27
Google has just released new imagery for Google Earth. We don't know the full extent of the update yet, but we've found some of it.
[Update, 29-April -- The official KML file
has been released.]
As is often the case, 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!
You could even use the new "Earth View" in Google Maps to swap back and forth between Maps and Earth view.
[UPDATED -- 28-April, 6:58am EST]
- Argentina: Rosario -- thanks '3done'
- Brazil: Sao Paulo -- thanks 'Tiago'
- Canada: BC -- thanks 'Craig'
- United States: Arizona (Phoenix, Tucson), Iowa (Des Moines), Nevada (Las Vegas) and Texas (almost the entire state) -- thanks 'Andreas', 'cristi', 'Chris', 'McMaster_de' and 'ChristianNL'
If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!
Posted by mickmel at April 27, 2010 6:47 AM
Comments
Posted by: Tiago at April 27, 2010 8:19 AM
san antonio TX january 2010 new imagery
Posted by: cristi at April 27, 2010 8:20 AM
des moines IA, but i don't know exactly....the imagery is dated 21st apr april 2009
Posted by: cristi at April 27, 2010 8:56 AM
beaumont TX 12th march 2010....new imagery hi resolution check out!
Posted by: cristi at April 27, 2010 9:10 AM
Parts of Shanghai have new imagery
Posted by: pilot73 at April 27, 2010 10:58 AM
Actually if I go here
I get an image dating from early 2006 in either Satellite or Earth view according to Google Earth, but the latter also has images from later in 2006 and in 2009. So Earth View's imagery is not as up to date as Google Earth's. (I don't know why the Earth view image is copyright 2010, but it's clearly from at least a couple years ago judging from the absence of a new building there.)
Posted by: Doctroid at April 27, 2010 11:09 AM
Dawson Creek, BC Canada has new imagery. We are about 600 km northwest of Edmonton, Alberta, close to the BC/Alberta border.
Posted by: Craig at April 27, 2010 12:33 PM
Tucson, AZ (finally!) to November, 2009.
Posted by: Chris at April 27, 2010 1:41 PM
Las Vegas, Nevada
Posted by: ChristianNL at April 27, 2010 1:56 PM
Rosario, Argentina
Posted by: 3done at April 27, 2010 2:45 PM
The East Bay in CA has new imagery from last October, meaning there's no more dark imagery from August.
Posted by: GT at April 27, 2010 2:58 PM
New imagery also in Mendoza, Argentina
Posted by: NESUA at April 27, 2010 3:14 PM
Shanghai (Imagery from February 13, 2010 - GeoEye)
Posted by: Cristobal Jordan at April 27, 2010 3:16 PM
Be sure to check the Historical Imagery option in GE for your area of interest. While the NYC base imagery is the same, there's May 2009 imagery in Hist-Im,including a shot of both Baseball Cathedrals in the Bronx! (Two Yankee Stadiums to the uninitiated, one of which is now gone.)
Posted by: LuciaM at April 27, 2010 4:55 PM
Japan: An area including Onga, Wakamatsu up to Shimonoseki. (Northern tip of Kyushu island)
Posted by: Munden at April 27, 2010 5:29 PM
Japan: Niigata was updated too.
Posted by: Munden at April 27, 2010 5:53 PM
google must remove the "new" sao paulo imagery
Posted by: felipe at April 27, 2010 6:14 PM
Japan: Shizuoka and Shimizu
Posted by: McMaster_de at April 27, 2010 8:35 PM
No new imagery for Houston. You'd think "almost the entire state" of Texas might include Houston.
Posted by: Anonymous at April 28, 2010 3:01 AM
USA: Phoenix, Arizona - November 20, 2009
Posted by: McMaster_de at April 28, 2010 5:08 AM
Why Google update many small cities in Brazil & forget other big cities? CAMPOS DOS GOYTACAZES in the North of Rio state has 2004 image!
São Paulo new imagery is horrible. There was already a good previous image
Posted by: Vinicius Tripári at April 28, 2010 2:07 PM
I can see a highway on Google Maps, but I can hardly see it (only if I zoom in significantly) in Google Earth at Cluj-Napoca, Romania. This is not the case in neighboring Hungary and Poland. Why?
Posted by: JI at April 28, 2010 3:41 PM
Japan: Fukuoka
India: Visakhapatnam
Posted by: Munden at April 28, 2010 5:54 PM
Thiago from São Paulo, said: "It appears google updated the imagery data of São Paulo - Brazil. The new imagery is newer, but the quality is much worse than the previous."
Yeah, I agree. Why?
Posted by: Marcos at April 28, 2010 8:31 PM
China: Yu-shu, Qing-hai. The town the earthquake attacked this month. The imagery shows the town before the earthquake.
Posted by: Philmoon at April 28, 2010 11:51 PM
Phoenix, AZ imagery update happened in early March, several rounds of updates ago.
Posted by: Chris at April 29, 2010 11:23 AM
Google Maps is now showing the updated imagery, but the network link highlights what was updated April 27th.
Posted by: Munden at April 29, 2010 5:33 PM
All right, I said that they had no new imagery for the Houston area, and I told the truth - they added some from October 2008. Not exactly "new" but still interesting to compare.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 5, 2010 1:19 AM
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It appears google updated the imagery data of São Paulo - Brazil. The new imagery is newer, but the quality is much worse than the previous.