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New Google Earth Imagery – September 23

September 23, 2009

[Update Sept. 25: Google has just released the official list of locations, including the KML file that shows them all.]
We’ve just verified that there is new imagery in various places around the world. You can check out the Google LatLong Blog for hints on where some of the new imagery is located.
New and updated imagery (UPDATED 25-SEP 0615 ET)

  • Antarctica – Dry Valleys (thanks ‘Tom’)
  • Argentina – Cordoba and Mendoza
  • Austria – Strip of new winter imagery near Tirol (thanks ‘Jonas’)
  • Brazil – Florianopolis (thanks ‘Tiago’)
  • Canada – Diavik Diamond Mine
  • China – Lhasa (thanks ‘jk’)
  • Finland – Various area (thanks ‘cristi’)
  • Iceland – Some stripes of imagery
  • Italy – Strip of winter imagery east of Rome
  • Maldive Islands – Male’ (thanks ‘Alsay’)
  • Mozambique – Maputo (thanks ‘Antonio’)
  • New Zealand – Te Anau (thanks ‘dapascha’), and Central parts of the country, including places like Canterbury and Darfield
  • Nigeria – Lagos (thanks ‘Snakeye’)
  • Pakistan – Karachi (thanks ‘Adil’)
  • Portugal – Madeira (thanks ‘Samuel’)
  • Russia – Norilsk (thanks ‘cristi’)
  • Saudi Arabia – Color corrections
  • South Korea – Ulsan (thanks ‘Munden’)
  • Ukraine – Sevastopol
  • United States
    • California – Mission Viejo and Ventura
    • Connecticut – Central part of the state
    • Delaware – Most (or all) of the State
    • Florida – Large parts of the state, including: Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Marion County, Miami and part of Taylor County
    • Maryland – Most of the state
    • Massachusetts – Eastern 1/3 of the state
    • Michigan – Metro Detroit area
    • Washington – Various parts of the state
  • Also, there appears to be new hi-res bathymetry off the east coast of the US – east of the continental shelf.

As you find others, please leave a comment and let us know. Because this imagery has not yet been added to Google Maps, you can compare any area in Google Earth against the same location in Google Maps to know for sure whether or not it’s been updated.

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  1. Tiago Carraro says

    September 23, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    Big new Imagery in South Brazil – Florianopolis, Sao Jose, Palhoça, Governador Celso Ramos, Tijucas, Nova Trento, Rancho Queimado, Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, and many others.

  2. Munden says

    September 23, 2009 at 9:19 pm

    Marion County, FL
    Duval County, FL (including Jacksonville)
    Part of Taylor County, FL
    (probably more of FL)
    South Korea: Ulsan
    Ukraine: Sevastopol
    Argentina: Cordoba
    Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada
    USA: The Maryland update is actually most of the State now that I’ve looked around. Even places like Annapolis that didn’t initially look like an update are simply very similar. (look at construction in Parole, MD to see the differences)

  3. Munden says

    September 23, 2009 at 10:04 pm

    USA: More notes for Florida
    Port Charlotte
    Miama and Fort Lauderdale are both updated. (It looks like a swath from Floriday City up to near Deerfield Beach.)

  4. kyutee says

    September 23, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Miami Florida got new update (the new imagery is from 2009)

  5. SittingDuck says

    September 24, 2009 at 12:23 am

    Saudi Arabia: Center has been color corrected

  6. Alsay says

    September 24, 2009 at 2:42 am

    Male’ (capital of Maldives Islands) has new imagery from 23 August 2009 (only a month old)

  7. Aulo says

    September 24, 2009 at 2:42 am

    The usual “updated areas KML” coming soon?

  8. GT says

    September 24, 2009 at 3:13 am

    Boston area/E. Massachusetts also updated

  9. jonas91 says

    September 24, 2009 at 5:11 am

    Saudi-Arabia has new medium imagery, like the rest of the desert.
    There are also some new winter images in austria (Tirol) and Italy, just south of the other image.

  10. Tim Brastow says

    September 24, 2009 at 5:20 am

    Massachusetts got hit with new images too:
    Suffolk County, Norfolk County, Essex County, Middlesex County, and northern Plymouth County have new imagery from April 2008 (previous was July 2007).

  11. Kevin51340 says

    September 24, 2009 at 5:22 am

    – Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Morocco and Qatar are now covered by 2.5 m Spot Image imagery.

  12. cristi says

    September 24, 2009 at 5:37 am

    new imagery update:25 august 2009 in norilsk russia…

  13. Samuel says

    September 24, 2009 at 5:44 am

    Part of Madeira Island in Portugal also got a Update!

  14. Tom says

    September 24, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Dry Valleys, Antarctica is finally covered with higher resolution imagery. However, quality is still inconsistent. Better than what was there, though.

  15. dapascha says

    September 24, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    The Te Anau area in New Zealand now has Spot imagery, low resolution but finally free of clouds. Too bad the lousy re-coloring efforts around Tongariro Nat’l Park from last month’s update haven’t been fixed… yet, I hope!

  16. jk says

    September 24, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Lhasa is updated (with Jan 2008 imagery)

  17. Adil says

    September 24, 2009 at 2:12 pm

    Karachi, Pakistan is updated…Finally! Thanks Google

  18. Terry says

    September 24, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    The USGS contracted aerial imagery for a good chunk of eastern Massachusetts in 2008. Massachusetts GIS (http://www.mass.gov/mgis/) made the imagery available online not too long ago. A PDF showing the areas of Massachusetts covered by this can be found here: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/coq2008_index.pdf

  19. scott s. says

    September 24, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    The new imagery at Male’ is geopositioned about 12m west of the previous imagery which is more accurate.

  20. Snakeye says

    September 24, 2009 at 6:52 pm

    Lagos in Nigeria has been updated.

  21. cristi says

    September 25, 2009 at 8:25 am

    some new imagery in finland…you have to look!

  22. wal says

    September 25, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Fuzhou (changle) CHina

  23. oSDDo says

    September 25, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    “Pucon” an small city in the south of Chile

  24. elagus says

    September 25, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Uruguay: Parts of Rio Negro (Ex. Young), Tacuarembó, Durazno and Cerro Largo.

  25. TETSU says

    September 25, 2009 at 7:22 pm

    Anchorage Alaska layers are error.
    Another city’s pictures appear on the city.
    For example, right space of Merrill Field,
    right space of Cheney Lake,
    on the patterson street,etc…
    there are many error layers in Anchorage.

  26. 120242pp says

    September 26, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Zhangqiu China

  27. testhaut says

    September 26, 2009 at 9:34 am

    archipelago “the minquiers” under Jersey island appear now clearly

  28. Truth says

    September 28, 2009 at 2:52 am

    Bosnia & hercegovina needs new imagery update(Mostar,Banja luka,Tuzla).

  29. Ernie says

    September 28, 2009 at 11:41 am

    Google has posted the kml file showing all areas included in this latest update. Go here:
    http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/09/where-in-world-is-answers.html
    and click on the link in the first paragraph (the word “here”).
    Ernie

  30. None given says

    September 30, 2009 at 8:05 am

    The new, updated imagery for Karachi is bad. It has a much poorer resolution than previously. Is there not a choice to switch back and forth between images (in wiki as well?)?



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