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April 5, 2011
New Google Earth Imagery - April 5
It's been just a few days since the last (minor) update, but it appears that Google has just loaded some more fresh imagery into Google Earth. Thanks to GEB reader 'ChrisZ' for spotting it first!
UPDATE: The updated areas KML file
is out, and this seems to have been a pretty substantial update. View the file to see it all.
UPDATE #2: Google has finally posted about this update, providing even more detail about it.
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 - 5-April, 3:23pm EST]
- Canada: Quebec (Lac-Simon) -- thanks 'patrice'
- China: Beijing and Guangzhou -- thanks 'Cristobal' and 'LiuX'
- New Zealand: Christchurch (new historical imagery)
- Romania: Constanta -- thanks 'ChrisZ'
- United States: Georgia (Columbus)
If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!
Posted by mickmel at April 5, 2011 12:28 PM
Comments
Posted by: patrice at April 5, 2011 12:42 PM
Guangzhou, China (October 27, 2010)
Posted by: Cristobal Jordan at April 5, 2011 1:41 PM
Hey,
i want to inform you that Jena, GER, has got an update on the update from March, so that the complete city is now shown up.
greets from germany
Posted by: Falko P. at April 5, 2011 1:43 PM
Chongqing, China (December 8th, 2010)
Posted by: Cristobal Jordan at April 5, 2011 1:45 PM
Beijing CHina
Posted by: LiuX at April 5, 2011 1:55 PM
Adare, Ireland
Posted by: TraveWithDave at April 5, 2011 2:26 PM
New imagery near the tripoint of Germany-Poland-Czech Republic (Bogatynia, Zittau)
Posted by: eHOG at April 5, 2011 2:31 PM
The KML file is ready...
http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml
Posted by: Cristobal Jordan at April 5, 2011 7:18 PM
New imagery in Europe continues the recent trend of being of very mixed quality - too many clouds and too much false colour for example - giving the impression of an automated process. Hope GE is not becoming a victim of one of Larry Page's project reviews.
Posted by: Chris at April 6, 2011 3:12 PM
Sacramento and new high-res terrain in San Mateo County, CA.
Posted by: GT at April 7, 2011 9:30 PM
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