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January 23, 2011
New Google Earth Imagery - January 23
It's been over a month since the past update, but thanks to some sharp-eyed GEB readers ('Andreas' and 'r m'), we're now aware that Google has just pushed out a new update!
As is usually 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 -- 23-January, 5:08pm EST]
- Canada: Manitoba and northwestern Ontario -- thanks 'Steven'
- China: Takla-Makan desert and Tibet -- thanks 'Neutravo'
- England: Various areas -- thanks 'Steven'
- Ireland: Ballycotton, Castlebar, Kinsale -- thanks 'r m'
- Norway: Maloy -- thanks 'Andreas'
- Scotland: Various areas in the southwest area of the country -- thanks 'Dunk'
- Spain: Catalonia and Zaragoza -- thanks 'Nacho' and 'Neutravo'
- Ukraine: Pervomaisk and Sevastopol -- thanks 'Sean'
- United States: Florida (Lakeland, Sarasota), Georgia (Macon, Augusta), Illinois (Champaign), Missouri (Branson and Springfield) and Ohio (Toledo) -- thanks 'Kevin' and 'Munden'
If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!
Posted by mickmel at January 23, 2011 2:07 PM
Comments
Posted by: Nacho at January 23, 2011 2:21 PM
Pervomaisk and Sevastopol, Ukraine.
Posted by: Sean O'Connor at January 23, 2011 2:42 PM
Various areas in SW Scotland, around Kirkudbright, Gatehouse Of Fleet, and Stranraer
Posted by: Dunk at January 23, 2011 2:42 PM
There is new imagery in the Gobi Desert of China, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario, east of Hunstanton in England, north of Blackpool in England, Holyhead Island in Wales, and Belmullet in Ireland.
Posted by: Steven at January 23, 2011 2:51 PM
I mean the Taklamakan Desert, not the Gobi Desert.
Posted by: Steven at January 23, 2011 3:06 PM
Spain: Catalonia (updated imagery).
China: some areas with SpotImage coverage (Takla-Makan desert and Tibet).
Canada: SoptImage coverage.
Posted by: Neutravo at January 23, 2011 3:21 PM
UK: Choseley, Fleetwood, Greenock
USA: Florida: Melbourne, Cape Canaveral
Posted by: Munden at January 23, 2011 3:22 PM
USA - Missouri: Branson and Springfield
Posted by: Munden at January 23, 2011 3:59 PM
USA: Illinois: Champaign
Posted by: Munden at January 23, 2011 4:03 PM
New imagery in the Toledo,OH area.
Posted by: Kevin at January 23, 2011 4:07 PM
Spain: Zamora
Posted by: libertybell7 at January 23, 2011 5:19 PM
UK What are GE doing? New imagery of Fleetwood, Holyhead, part of Islay and Jura, and elsewhere is way worse than what it replaces - dark, less clear, and part obscured by clouds. Use of historic slider highly recommended if you go to these places. GE please drop this inferior stuff.
Posted by: Chris at January 23, 2011 5:37 PM
SCOTLAND There are what appear to be more patches of the new dark and cloudy imagery in the OUter Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, and a very bad example in NW Skye.
Some of this replaces very low res imagery unchanged since the launch of GE, but most replaces better imagery. The net effect is a degrading of coverage in a country still lacking complete coverage at a reasonable res - very disappointing.
Posted by: Chris at January 23, 2011 6:22 PM
Sneak preview: The update includes a very small patch of very high resolution kite aerial imagery (taken by me) on a little island forming part of the atoll Tikehau in French Polynesia. Coords: -15.10166 -148.2513
Posted by: Frank Taylor at January 23, 2011 7:51 PM
Chortkiv Ukraine has new imagery as well.
Posted by: Alec Ferretti at January 23, 2011 7:53 PM
GE has really became outdated in terms of imagery to the point of becoming almost obsolete. I can appreciate the work it takes and perfect conditions that it requires (satellite position, weather, etc. I read the older post that updates require) to update imagery but most imagery remains from 2004 around most of the globe. I would think in a span of 7 years or so more could be updated than the random few major cities. At this point it should be renamed Google Cities because it has almost no relevance to Earth anymore. Just my two cents.
Posted by: Nick at January 23, 2011 10:34 PM
USA: Louisiana: Shreveport
Posted by: Munden at January 23, 2011 10:36 PM
USA: Tennessee: Knoxville
Posted by: Munden at January 23, 2011 10:47 PM
USA: Lousiana: Lafayette
I keep thinking I'm done, and then find yet another update!
Posted by: Munden at January 23, 2011 11:05 PM
I just noticed that the imagery from the Ft. Worth, TX area went back from 12/2009 to 10/2007, with the new Cowboys Football Stadium still under construction.
Posted by: GT at January 24, 2011 12:16 AM
I noticed that also some parts of Ourense, Galicia (Spain) was updated
Posted by: cachalgura at January 24, 2011 4:10 AM
New imagery in central part of Serbia (Čačak municipality, from April 2010). Good quality.
Posted by: Nono at January 24, 2011 6:49 AM
New imagery in Serbia: Pristina city and the neighbourhood.
Posted by: New imagery at January 24, 2011 6:55 AM
IMAGE QUALITY
Do GE check the quality of new imagery before they load it, and, if so, do they care any more?
GE seem to be losing sight of the basic objective of getting good imagery, not necessarily bang up to date. as the foundation for the all the more technically advanced things.
Also, if they want to make money from GE/Maps, say, by linking maps and satellite images to properties on sale, the last thing the real estate agent wants to find is a property under a blanket of cloud, as it would be in many places in the updated imagery around Fleetwood in the UK.
Posted by: Chris at January 24, 2011 7:25 AM
new imagery west of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Posted by: patrice at January 24, 2011 7:34 AM
New imagery of 2010 North of the Tuscany, Italy
Posted by: mpwsc at January 24, 2011 9:01 AM
Romania.
Targu Mures area big imagery update (22.07.2010 and 12.04.2010 images) almost 50% of Mures District (top left: Sarmasu; top right: Jabenita; bottom right: Bezid; bottom left: Giulus).
Tnx
Posted by: Cristian at January 24, 2011 11:26 AM
Grand Rapids, MI has reverted to 2003 imagery, but at least it got rid of the murky 2005 landscape that must have been taken on a foggy day. The 2005 imagery is still in the history slider.
Posted by: Dave Timpe at January 24, 2011 12:17 PM
Egypt: Alexandria
Posted by: Munden at January 24, 2011 5:36 PM
Prishtina, Kosovo (8/19/2010).
Posted by: Edi at January 24, 2011 5:43 PM
Hungary, Miskolc
Posted by: geobeka at January 25, 2011 3:20 AM
My company Greenland Survey Asiaq has also released our latest aerial imagery (summer 2009) at GE of the major towns of Greenland:
- Ilulissat including part of the Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier (69.2 N 51.1W)
- Sisimiut, prev. Holsteinsborg (66.94N 53.57W)
- Nuuk, prev. Godthaab (64.18N, 51,72W)
- Paamiut, prev. Frederikshaab (61.99N 49,66W)
- Qaqortoq, prev. Julianehaab (60.72N 46.04W)
Posted by: Karl Zinglersen at January 25, 2011 12:15 PM
Lithuania: a few spots
Posted by: Ugnis at January 25, 2011 12:49 PM
Eastern Crete, south of Sitia. We've been under a cloud in a 2002 image for years (in an area with 330 days sunshine a year). Just updated to June 2010 image, no cloud but the image quality is disappointing. As in previous post above, do Google care about quality any more? Image carries a new copyright name I haven't seen before, Basarsoft.
Posted by: catbert at January 26, 2011 7:34 AM
Pallavicino, Cantalupo Ligure, Piamonte, Italy
Posted by: Leonardo Daniel Leidi at January 26, 2011 7:45 AM
THE FUTURE? there have been suggestions in the media that Google is losing its way after Facebook became top website in terms of use, and that "friends'" recommendations are becoming more popular than web searches and listings.
With the news that Google is to "retire" the 'property for sale' layer on Maps, and with other possible indications of diminished commitment to geographical products, do GEB readers have concerns about the future for GE?
Posted by: Chris at January 27, 2011 6:28 AM
They've added imagery of the Houston, TX area from 1944 and 1965.
Posted by: Rob at January 27, 2011 11:44 AM
WTF is that white thing in new imagery of florida?snow?or what?
Posted by: cristi at January 27, 2011 6:39 PM
Official KML is up.:
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml
Posted by: Tybois at January 29, 2011 11:19 AM
New image also at Tapolca, Hungary ( 46°51'58.02"N, 17°26'59.93"E )
Posted by: zRg at January 30, 2011 2:51 PM
The Ft. Worth imagery is back to 12/2009 with a great new 3D model of Cowboys Stadium for the Super Bowl!
Posted by: GT at February 1, 2011 12:42 AM
Italy - Metropolitan area of Sassari (Sardinia)
Posted by: morko at February 1, 2011 2:12 PM
Recently there has also been updates over Estonia, some regions that had 2 years old winter images are now new from last summer
Posted by: Kala at February 1, 2011 3:19 PM
Central Massachusetts has imagery from September 2010, looks like it came with this update.
Posted by: Timmy at February 3, 2011 12:28 AM
In Poland, there is a 13.5 by 10.25 square mile rectangle which includes some parts of powiats Brzozowski,Krosnienski,and Sanocki.
Posted by: Pawel at February 5, 2011 4:25 PM
Quetzaltenango city, Guatemala
Posted by: El Franco at June 23, 2011 2:23 AM
surabaya city, indonesia
Posted by: achmad at August 8, 2011 12:25 PM
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Some places from Zaragoza, Spain are updated (at last!) too.