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April 6, 2010
New Google Earth Imagery - April 6
Google has just released some new imagery for Google Earth. We've only been able to verify a few locations so far, but plenty more is certainly out there.
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!
[UPDATED -- 6-April, 5:21pm EST]
- Brazil: Various areas, including Encantado and Nova Petrópolis -- thanks 'Rafael'
- Chad: Northern parts of the country -- thanks 'Andreas'
- China: Most of Liaoning Province and south of Shanghai -- thanks 'Zdk' and 'Munden'
- Japan: Various spot imagery -- thanks 'Thilo'
- New Caledonia: Noumea -- thanks 'Valentin'
- Russia: Moscow -- thanks 'Rider'
- United States: Georgia (Southeast areas of the state), Idaho (Bovill, Potlatch), Minnesota (St. Cloud), Texas (San Angelo) -- thanks 'davidz', 'Cameron' and 'Jody'
- Vietnam: Kep -- thanks 'Snakeye'
In addition, 'Patrick' has noticed that all of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Stadiums have new imagery, though it often doesn't extend very far into the surrounding city.
If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!
Posted by mickmel at April 6, 2010 8:35 AM
Comments
Posted by: Valentin at April 6, 2010 8:50 AM
Found a new E-W Geoeye strip ranging from Encantado (NW corner) to Nova Petrópolis (SE corner), both in RS, Brasil.
Posted by: Rafael S. at April 6, 2010 9:03 AM
northern Chad have 2.5m imagery now
Posted by: Andreas at April 6, 2010 9:04 AM
Spot imagery for Japan
Posted by: Thilo at April 6, 2010 9:12 AM
China:
Most of Liaoning Province
Posted by: Zdk at April 6, 2010 9:14 AM
All FIFA 2010 World Cup venues are updated with high res images. Altough not the complete cities only the stadiums and surroundings.
Posted by: Patrick at April 6, 2010 9:22 AM
Spot imagery for parts of northern China (Gansu province, Inner Mongolia)
Posted by: Thilo at April 6, 2010 9:27 AM
Potlatch, ID, Bovill, ID (and presumably nearby areas)
Posted by: davidz at April 6, 2010 10:06 AM
I'm still waiting for the new imagery for Stratford CT since SEPTEMBER 2009! =[
Posted by: joao dias at April 6, 2010 1:06 PM
The Kép area in Vietnam also has new Nov 2009 dated GeoEye imagery.
Posted by: Snakeye at April 6, 2010 1:11 PM
OSX BUG?
GE 5.1 went 'black' on my Mac at the time of the last automatic imagery update, apparently due to a bug in the update process. I got round this by uninstalling GE 5.1 and re-installing GE 5.0 with update off, Does anyone know whether this really is/was a bug, and if so has it been fixed?
Posted by: Chris at April 6, 2010 1:47 PM
Moscow, Russia.
Nothern part of Chad, Africa got spot imagery.
Posted by: Rider at April 6, 2010 1:57 PM
Japan: Base imagery now from Spot, so it's 2m instead of the 15m Landsat resolution. Technically that makes them 100% covered now.
Posted by: Munden at April 6, 2010 4:04 PM
China: South of Shanghai -- There's some new imagery from 2009 running east/west.
Posted by: Munden at April 6, 2010 4:08 PM
St. Cloud and surrounding area of Minnesota
Posted by: Cameron at April 6, 2010 4:17 PM
Suzhou, China
Nanjing, China
Posted by: Cristobal Jordan at April 6, 2010 5:29 PM
Cebu City, Philippines - look at the CSCR (Cebu South Coastal Road) Tunnel !
Posted by: Mike at April 6, 2010 7:05 PM
Shanghai Expo site
Posted by: Mike at April 6, 2010 7:38 PM
RE; OS X bug
I got the same thing. I found clearing the GE cache did the trick, some reported going back to 5.0 and then forward to 5.1 worked for them, maybe that had the sideeffect of dropping the cache
Posted by: Craig Stanton at April 6, 2010 10:43 PM
Russia: Kunashir Island (partial) Southern Kuriles (significant cloud cover, though).
Posted by: scott s. at April 7, 2010 6:00 AM
New image of most of the Moatize Coal Project area in Mozambique
Posted by: Antonio Teixeira at April 7, 2010 9:29 AM
Area east and northeast of Prizren, Kosovo (Nov 23, 2009).
Posted by: Edi at April 7, 2010 10:34 AM
Mount Shasta, CA
Posted by: GT at April 7, 2010 2:18 PM
China - Northern part
Posted by: Steven at April 7, 2010 3:04 PM
Looks like nearly the entire state of New Hampshire was updated with fresh new imagery (7/5/2009). Much of the area was using imagery from 3-8 years ago.
Posted by: Tim Brastow at April 7, 2010 4:17 PM
I'm still waiting for the new imagery for Manizales, Colombia since SEPTEMBER 2009!
Posted by: Germán Sáenz at April 7, 2010 11:33 PM
What is with germany? In the southwest are
pictures from 2000! Don't google support germany?
Posted by: felix at April 8, 2010 1:42 PM
Has Google not updated the 'new imagery' link yet?
Posted by: Zach at April 8, 2010 4:46 PM
Yes, Zach, the imagery link is udpated with the markers for the newest imagery.
Posted by: Munden at April 8, 2010 11:41 PM
In Croatia, new images of Dubrovnik.
Posted by: Spot at April 9, 2010 2:47 AM
Posted by: PaSKud at April 9, 2010 7:09 AM
Kml with updates is fixed (and showing 7th April).
Posted by: jk at April 9, 2010 5:20 PM
I viewed that KML file and why does it have many states outlined? Google Earth surely didn't update that many states...
Posted by: Tim Brastow at April 9, 2010 6:30 PM
I am still waiting for imagery updates to El Barretal Tamaulipas, Mexico since 2006! The surrounding areas have been updated so why not this one?
Posted by: al castillo at April 10, 2010 4:54 AM
I viewed that KML file and why does it have many states outlined? Google Earth surely didn't update that many states...
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Posted by: Dinesh at April 10, 2010 6:26 AM
I see 2009 "USDA Farm Service Agency" imagery for those states, so I guess they did update imagery for all those states. Sometimes I see older data though, maybe the USDA updates are only for the medium resolution areas.
Posted by: Josh at April 10, 2010 11:25 AM
BUG FIXED (hopefully)
I posted on 6 April about a query OSX bug blacking out GE 5.1. In case any other readers are still having problems, I have now successfully re-installed 5.1 from the advanced download site http://earth.google.com/download-earth-advanced.html with automatic update turned OFF as the first step.
It's nice to have Panoramio working properly again (an unfixed bug in 5.0 for OSX?), and lo and behold the 7 April imagery update is sitting there in my places! Although it seems nothing much in Europe this time. Google really do work in mysterious ways.
Posted by: Chris at April 13, 2010 11:33 AM
I think the south-east end of Cornwall in England has been done too. Though there seems to be a glitch that shows some random misplaced imagery (across land and sea) when zoomed out above the updated area.
Posted by: Tomdubbs at April 13, 2010 5:37 PM
Not a question about new magery , but of existig iagery suddenly going into BLACKOUT MODE over large areas in normal 3D Terrain view mode. My hometown of Cody Wyoming USA and much of the surrounding Big Horn Basin will turn solid black if viewed below an Eye Altitude of approx. 9,000 feet. The imagery is fine above that altitude. Just started doing this. Doesn't matter what computer, internet, or graphics card is used, so it's definitely something in the data
Posted by: Dewd at May 3, 2010 12:21 PM
Dewd -- You're absolutely right. I've notified Google about the bug, so hopefully they'll resolve it soon.
Posted by: Mickey at May 3, 2010 2:31 PM
This may be old news but the Google Earth updates include some regions around Lat 45, Lon -78, just south of Algonquin Park. Resolution seems to have gone up by a factor of about 10 and is now able to resolve houses and road and vehicle details. These updates are also in Google Earth. A very welcome relief for those of us with cottages in the area.
Posted by: Peter Dalziel at May 9, 2010 12:06 PM
@Mickey what kind of bug man?
Posted by: Usman@FirstHosting at March 14, 2011 12:40 AM
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