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June 15, 2010
New Google Earth Imagery - June 15
Hot on the heels of the release of Google Earth 5.2 and Google Earth 3.0 for iPhone, Google has just pushed out another imagery update. Thanks to GEB reader 'Chris' for letting us know!
[Update, 18-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 -- 16-June, 7:52am EST]
- Netherlands: Various cities -- thanks 'Maarten' and 'hhgygy'
- United States: Orange County and Los Angeles County, CA and most of Washington State -- thanks 'Chris' and 'Munden'
If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!
Posted by mickmel at June 15, 2010 1:02 PM
Comments
Posted by: Chris at June 15, 2010 2:09 PM
I found some new areas in the Netherlands:
- the city of Eindhoven
- the area around Elburg
- the area south-east of Utrecht (Houten, Schalwijk)
- the area south-west of Utrecht (IJsselstein, Benschop, Lopik).
Posted by: Maarten at June 15, 2010 2:19 PM
Amsterdam has new imagery dated Jun 22, 2009.
Posted by: Hefin at June 15, 2010 2:30 PM
Also Groningen, Holland has new crispy imagery
Posted by: hhgygy at June 15, 2010 5:00 PM
Good to see more new high res coverage in the Netherlands of excellent quality.
One curiosity is that there were either 16 identical crane barges on the Eemskanal in Groningen, or one was captured 16 times, indicating the high density of camera tracks needed for the imagery.
Posted by: Chris at June 15, 2010 6:20 PM
Wow, they undid all the color blending in some Chilean cities. What a step back, I don't get it.
Posted by: JP at June 15, 2010 7:34 PM
Wow, and they also just added the user photo recently to Google Maps. It really threw me when I was using Google Maps to look for updated imagery in various places like Russian Navy bases and seeing the Pegman active!
Posted by: Munden at June 15, 2010 9:58 PM
USA:
Bremerton, WA
Posted by: Munden at June 15, 2010 10:14 PM
Actually, a lot more of Washington State got updated. I'd say basically the whole State was updated except for certain very high resolution areas like Seattle. However, even places as close as Boeing Field got updated.
Posted by: Munden at June 15, 2010 10:52 PM
The new los angeles imagery is surprisingly old. Google maps has 3+ year old imagery, and earth has what appears to be early 2009.
Posted by: JJ at June 16, 2010 1:51 AM
Netherlands: Hilversum is also updated (imagery is from Sep 25, 2007)
Posted by: Rob at June 16, 2010 2:54 AM
I've only had a few minutes to play around with it so far on the iPad. I don't know why it took so long to come up with iPad support. the pixel doubler was worthless. I really wish they would just add the GE functionality to the maps application.
Posted by: Ryan at June 16, 2010 12:07 PM
Google Maps now has the imagery.
Posted by: Steven at June 16, 2010 7:19 PM
Phoenix Arizona looks fresh to me
Posted by: JAMES FRIESEN at June 17, 2010 1:51 AM
In India, Mumbai and Navi Mumbai updated Nov 2009 - quite recent compared to some other places
Posted by: Ramesh Patil at June 17, 2010 7:31 AM
North Shropshire in the UK updated.
Posted by: Simon at June 17, 2010 5:18 PM
The network link is udpated with the new imagery boundaries.
Posted by: Munden at June 17, 2010 6:15 PM
The official blog post mentions many countries that also got high res satellite updates, but in the KML there are no red polygons to show this. I was interested in The Philippines update but nothing in the KML shows this.
Very strange.
Posted by: Craig at June 18, 2010 11:31 AM
Craig, the official blog post lists countries that received updates both on May 26th and June 15th. So nothing strange about it. Just check the previous update in the released KML.
Posted by: Snakeye at June 18, 2010 4:58 PM
Whats up with Google - the image quality of Los Angeles is very bad now !
Posted by: Frank at June 19, 2010 10:56 AM
I'd just like to say as an observation that earlier versions of the application allowed closer-up views in better detail than the current version. AS a yardstick I;m using the views of Waheap campground Lake Powell. Here I could zoom down to almost on top of them. Today, if I try to do that the clarity is no longer there. You would have to stay at a much higher altitude to see a crisp image. Can this be because the application has more features and its a question of memory ? I don;t know, I;m not a computer guru.
Posted by: Arthur Sidrow at June 29, 2010 10:37 PM
We look forward to fresh imagery for Eindhoven in Google Maps.
Posted by: freddie " the eindhoven plumbers" klerks at July 27, 2010 10:48 PM
We request for fresh imagery in google earth for Arun Valley near mount Makalu -8462 meters (the fifth highest peak around the world)coverage area Shankhuwa Sabha & Bhojpur district in Nepal
Posted by: Bibek Dahal at September 7, 2010 10:34 AM
hi could someone tell me the best google earth to put on my computer, looking for one best one with cameras for close shots, thank you,
Posted by: EDWARD WATSON at January 26, 2011 7:43 PM
Edward -- There is no "best" Google Earth; there is only one program. You can always get the latest version from here: http://earth.google.com/
Posted by: Mickey at January 26, 2011 8:12 PM
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Several major cities in the Netherlands, part of Amsterdam (south), Groningen, Leeuwarden, Eindhoven and several smaller municipalities.