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May 27, 2010
New Google Earth Imagery - May 27
Google has just released some new imagery for Google Earth, though we don't know the full extent of the update at this point. Thanks to user 'hhgygy' for pointing it out!
[Update, 7-June -- The official KML file
has been updated.]
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 -- 27-May, 9:25pm EST]
- Chile: Santiago -- thanks 'Tales' and @tonyBlvd
- China: Nanjing -- thanks 'Cristobal'
- Island of Mozambique: And surrounding area -- thanks 'hhgygy'
- Netherlands: Various areas -- thanks 'Chris'
- Philippines: Laoag -- thanks 'Dan'
- United States: Portland, ME and Charlotte, NC and various cities in Tennessee -- thanks 'cristi' and 'Robert'
- Venezula: Paraguana Peninsula -- thanks 'Soyfalconiano'
- Vietnam: Danang -- thanks 'Stvn'
If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!
Posted by mickmel at May 27, 2010 2:58 PM
Comments
Posted by: Chris at May 27, 2010 4:05 PM
Region of Santiago in Chile was also updated,
Hug from Brazil!!
Posted by: Tales Vieira Colman at May 27, 2010 4:08 PM
charlotte NC 11apr2010
Posted by: cristi at May 27, 2010 4:08 PM
portland USA june 2008 imagery
Posted by: cristi at May 27, 2010 4:16 PM
portland maine...but I don't know exactly...the other portland is in WA...
Posted by: cristi at May 27, 2010 4:21 PM
Nanjing, China
Posted by: Cristobal Jordan at May 27, 2010 4:40 PM
Frank, an update on the northern Paraguana Peninsula, Falcón State Venezuela ...
Posted by: Soyfalconiano at May 27, 2010 5:30 PM
nashville TN 13 apr 2010 imagery
Posted by: cristi at May 27, 2010 5:36 PM
memphis TN 10 apr 2010 imagery....
Posted by: cristi at May 27, 2010 5:37 PM
Cristi, I'm not seeing any updates to Portland Maine. (Or the one in Oregon, not Washington) In both cases the imagery is unchanged and is an exact match for the Google Maps imagery.
Santiago also has no updates other than perhaps some color balancing.
I looked at some of the other updates and they're valid, so it's not as though Google did an immediate map update.
Posted by: Munden at May 27, 2010 6:22 PM
I noticed earlier in the day that the Nashville, TN are is now April 13, 2010.
Posted by: Robert Lipe at May 27, 2010 7:56 PM
The city of Danang, Vietnam
Posted by: Stvn at May 27, 2010 9:00 PM
ok Munden...thank's...
Posted by: cristi at May 27, 2010 9:08 PM
Laoag in The Philippines has been updated
Posted by: Dan at May 27, 2010 9:12 PM
Area Mill en St.Hubert Netherlands (2006)
Posted by: Ruben at May 28, 2010 1:11 AM
I have mixed feelings about this update. On the one hand Google is listening by recoloring the Talcahuano/Concepción area that looked too bright before, but it has also recolored Santiago, that while it looked slightly greenish before, now it looks totally washed out. I don't know what to make of this. I hope the Google team can find some sort of middle ground.
Posted by: JP at May 28, 2010 1:34 AM
For Sri Lanka, Jaffna District Deflt island, Mullaitivu District Wadduwakkal Area, Trincomalee/Batticaloa District bourder Pannichankerny area, Puttlam distirct close to the town and areas close to Kalpity
Posted by: Regunathan Umapathy at May 28, 2010 9:23 AM
This new imagery is in Google Maps now. The KML-file seems not yet to be updated.
Posted by: Maarten at May 29, 2010 9:11 AM
Maarten - the early May KML and imagery update in Places emerged from Google about a week after GEB readers spotted new imagery, so we may have a few days to wait for this round.
But were there changes in the layers panel sometime in the last week? I had to re-set my layers when things like Panoramio vanished, then I noticed (newly introduced?) sponsored links in the 'fly to' section.
Posted by: Chris at May 29, 2010 3:27 PM
City of Marina di Ragusa, in sicily, Italy was update.
Thankyou from Italy
Posted by: Powser at May 30, 2010 6:59 PM
It looks like Shanghai was updated, in addition to Nanjing.
Posted by: Drew at June 5, 2010 3:49 AM
Drew - Shanghai was updated about a month earlier, in late April.
Posted by: Mickey at June 5, 2010 9:19 AM
KML updated
Posted by: jkjk at June 7, 2010 1:20 PM
The KML-file has been updated!
Posted by: Maarten at June 7, 2010 5:22 PM
Where is the KML?
Posted by: Leonardo Daniel Leidi at June 7, 2010 8:44 PM
The 26 May imagery update has belatedly just arrived in Places to coincide with the release of the KML and confirms earlier impressions that this was a disappointingly limited update.
Posted by: Chris at June 8, 2010 6:57 AM
i want to see bangladesh
Posted by: siraj at June 11, 2010 1:20 PM
please update Panay island and Bukidnon in Mindanao
Posted by: Roel Poly at August 19, 2010 9:42 AM
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