It’s been a few weeks since the last update, and now Google has just started pushing out their latest imagery update. Thanks to GEB reader ‘Alsay’ for being the first to let us know about it!
[UPDATE, 4-July 9:37pm — Google has now posted about it in the Lat Long Blog, and updated the update KML
as well.]
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 — 4-July, 5:07pm EST]
- Brazil: Parts of Sao Luis — thanks ‘Anthony’ and ‘Florent’
- Bulgaria: Near Hamanli and Stara Zagora — thanks ‘JI’
- Chile: Large area centered on Bulnes — thanks ‘Munden’
- Hungary: Various areas — thanks ‘hhgygy’
- Iceland: Reykjavík — thanks ‘AKB’ and ‘Noel’
- India: Various areas — thanks ‘hhgygy’
- Indonesia: Depok — thanks ‘krz9000’
- Kazakhstan: Three Gorges Dam and Pavlodar — thanks ‘Drone’
- Netherlands: Amsterdam, Almere, Hengelo, Rijssen, Holton — thanks ‘Stefan’
- Pakistan: Karachi — thanks ‘Noman’
- Saudi Arabia: Jeddah and Makkah — thanks ‘Alsay’
- Thailand: Southern areas — thanks ‘Dominus’
- United States: Parts of Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Washington — thanks ‘Andreas’, ‘ChrisK’, ‘cristi’, ‘JI’, ‘Jun’ and ‘Meryl’
- Vietnam: Danang — thanks ‘Stvn’
If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!
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There are image updates in Bulgaria, west of Sofia, near Hamanli, and Stara Zagora.
Netherlands: Amsterdam, Almere, Hengelo, Rijssen, Holten
possibly many more.
depok, indonesia (south of jakarta, has new less-clouds, vibrant colours version. image resolution seems to be the same as before
Brazil – Western portion of Sao Luis including Sao Raimundo and the large ore port.
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
oklahoma city!
st. louis, MS!
kansas city, ks!
US :
– Oklahoma city
– Detroid
– Indianapolis
The Netherlands :
– Amsterdam
– Woerden
– Leiden
– Zwolle
– Rijsen
– Holten
detroit ,michigan!
jackson missippi!
seattle, WA!
New background imagery for Southern Thailand & Peninsular Malaysia.
In Florida USA – Miami April 1, 2010, Orlando May 2, 2010, Jacksonville March 31, 2010.
the city of Danang in Vietnam, has been updated
Kansas City has an imagery date of May 4, 2010
Bulgaria:
1 – West of Sofia. With an awesome picture of an commercial jet in flight over a highway under construction. 42,40,07N 29,09,05E
2 – Stara Zagora
Iceland: a new image beside Eyjafjallajökull volcano, but the snow is green!!!!!
Florida parts of Orange and Osceola County dated may 2 2010
Kansas City has a new image dated May 4, 2010
Miami Florida and Orlando in Florida
Reykjavík, Iceland has been updated to July 2009
Finally after 4 yrs, this update also includes new Imagery for the City of Hengelo (Ov) (Netherlands), near the German border. The resolution is much better! (Images are Dated 2. April 2009 vs 2005 of the previous images. )
Itú region – brazilian city near by São Paulo – updated. Still looking for other updated.
New crispy winter image in the middle of Latvia, although it is March 2003
Chandigarh, India
Hyderabad, India airport, northern section
New november 19 2009 imagery in east side of Lima, but terrain now looks blue.
Three Gorges Dam and Pavlodar, Kazakhstan has also been updated.
Mid-East Hungary
Amstelveen and Aalsmeer, The Netherlands.
(Imagery from 8 May 2008, more than two years old already.)
Everett, Seattle (WA), Miami (FL), Midwest City (OK)
Actually, various places in all parts of Hungary
Nigeria: Most of the country got new SPOT imagery for its base
Finland: Mariehamn (updated tile that includes much of the surrounding area too)
Brazil – Western portion of Sao Luis, city of Natal end Salinópolis.
Just noticed that Google Maps on Mobile (android) has the updated imagery available as well today. Hengelo the Netherlands.
USA: Philadelphia
In USA: Southeastern Pennsylvania and Northern Delaware
De Meern, Netherlands. Looks like early 2007.
– PERU: Eastern side of LIMA, bad resolution and incorrect colors, totally blue.
– NICARAGUA: Nice colors and better resolution in MANAGUA.
Santiago, Chile (Again!)(March 21-27, 2010)
USA: Pensacola, FL
Geez, this is a HUGE update
Chile: Large area centered roughly on Bulnes. (Feb 11, 2010) It doesn’t go over as far as the port in Talcahuano, though. Part of Concepción is as close as it gets.
Karachi,Pakistan
Google have just (c. 21.00 UK time, Sunday) announced the update on the LatLong blog, but so far with no KML or automatic update to ‘My Places’. Hope that this is a rushed job for 4 July celebrations in the US and that Google do issue the details of updates.
Fantastic new high res images in the Netherlands, although there seems to be something of a haze over Amsterdam.
Karachi,23/May/2009
Hyderabad,17/Jan/2010
Kotri,17/Jan/2010
Jamshoro,17/Jan/2010
Thatta,17/Jan/2010
Tando Muhammad Khan,06/Jul/2010
Matli,06/Jul/2010
Mirpur Khas,14/Jul/2010
Nawab Shah,28/Sep/2004
Badin,25/Feb/2007
Gawadar,27/Sep/2009
Pasni,01/Jul/2006
Sukkur,20/Apr/2009
Larkana,20/Dec/2006
Islamabad,17/May/2009
Rawalpindi,17/May/2009
Masehra,17/Oct/2005
Faisalabad,26/Mar/2010
Multan,25/Apr/2009
Bahawalpur,17/Apr/2010
Peshawar,20/Jan/2010
Quetta,13/Oct/2009
And all Pakistan`s cities are update.
Note*above dates are mentioned to taken images.
@krz9000: Forgot updated crisp of Surakarta aka Solo huh? And did so Gunung Merapi, also (outdated) imagery of Malang, the Crazy Lion City. Oh also the other strip of updated imagery in Indonesia that I can’t said more detail.
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Karlovac, Croatia
There is KML, but some places that have been marked “updated” have a YOM of 2002?
KML updated!
USA: Much of Rhode Island is updated with good imagery from 2010. It covers most of the State except for the extreme edges, but it also goes over into Massachusetts.
In Massachusetts it goes over to Bedford and even up north of Taunton.
Singapore: There’s a new dark tile on the western edge of the island. It’s centered vaguely on Jurong.
WOW, they have already updated their network link so you can easily see what’s been updated.
Glad they are still doing updates! 🙂
I wish they will fix up the mountain communities of California with updated imagery.
Karlovac, Croatia
…and most of Germany is still from 2000 ;(
I don’t understand why Google take pictures with clouds on it. The clouds hides the area and the map is useless that place. The other problem is the pictures taken in winter-day afternoon when the sun shines very low angle. Is it difficult to follow the weather forecast to choose a shiny cloudless summer day when satellites at the right position?
Argentina: Gran Buenos Aires, Campana, San Nicolás, Rosario y Posadas
Venezuela: Sucre
Seattle with the Boeing field from 2010-05-15 showing two Dreamliners B787.
The big 4 July update arrived in My Places on 5 July, but there are some curiousities. Groningen, in the Netherlands, for example has been updated again within a month, other GEB readers have commented on the age and quality of some updates. and it would be very helpful if Google explained more about what happens in a update generally and sometimes specifically.
Why is that I cannot find any fresh stuff in some of the areas surrounded by the red rectangles? The imagery in e.g. Miskolc, Hungary is still exactly the same as before, showing a two year old state.
new images of mt evans in Colorado image dated March 2008 i find it hard to belive the date is right since there is no snow on the mt, i think it’s more like late june or early july
I thought satellite images are rectangular but when I scroll from Slovakia to Hungary, the quality/resolution drops significantly at the border on the Hungarian side, and this drop follows the border exactly but the border is not rectangular at all. How can this happen?
+1 on Mt Evans in Colorado. I live in Clear Creek County, CO and the entire area was updated. The imagery date is definitely off though. Based on the cars seen in my driveway, it is the week of July 4, 2008 (not March 1, 2008 as indicated in GE).
Germany : Karlsruhe, Imagery more than 4 years old !
Čakovec, Croatia please update
the pixel resolution of Buenos Aires, Argentina (Oct 2010) are very bad and not clear.