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New Google Earth Imagery – April 5

April 5, 2011

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.

romania.jpg

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!

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  1. patrice says

    April 5, 2011 at 12:42 pm

    new image: Canada, Quebec, Lac Simon

  2. Cristobal Jordan says

    April 5, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    Guangzhou, China (October 27, 2010)

  3. Falko P. says

    April 5, 2011 at 1:43 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

  4. Cristobal Jordan says

    April 5, 2011 at 1:45 pm

    Chongqing, China (December 8th, 2010)

  5. LiuX says

    April 5, 2011 at 1:55 pm

    Beijing CHina

  6. TraveWithDave says

    April 5, 2011 at 2:26 pm

    Adare, Ireland

  7. eHOG says

    April 5, 2011 at 2:31 pm

    New imagery near the tripoint of Germany-Poland-Czech Republic (Bogatynia, Zittau)

  8. Cristobal Jordan says

    April 5, 2011 at 7:18 pm

    The KML file is ready…
    http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml

  9. Chris says

    April 6, 2011 at 3:12 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.

  10. GT says

    April 7, 2011 at 9:30 pm

    Sacramento and new high-res terrain in San Mateo County, CA.



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