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Animated historical imagery of Europe

October 8, 2014

Following on from yesterday’s post about historical imagery, we thought it would be interesting to make an animation. As you can see below, we have created an animated gif image showing the historical imagery for Europe. Because there is very little imagery prior to the year 2000, we have shown decades from 1940 to 2000 and then yearly snapshots from 2000 to date.

Animated historical imagery of Europe

If you look carefully, you can see the difference between aerial imagery, which is introduced in large patches, and satellite imagery, which appears in strips running in a north-south direction.

About Timothy Whitehead

Timothy has been using Google Earth since 2004 when it was still called Keyhole before it was renamed Google Earth in 2005 and has been a huge fan ever since. He is a programmer working for Red Wing Aerobatx and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

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  1. Chris says

    October 8, 2014 at 7:10 am

    Great animation – shows very widespread updates, but not really visible at the small scale of the animated map are odd pockets and strips that have never been updated from the initial low res GE imagery or from early low res updates. Examples can still be found in Ireland and France, and of course much more extensively elsewhere on the globe. I would be good if Google could ‘patch’ such areas as well as investing in 3D cities.

  2. Leonardo Daniel Leidi says

    October 8, 2014 at 9:13 am

    Can you create the same for South America?

    • Timothy Whitehead says

      October 8, 2014 at 12:53 pm

      Yes, I do have plans to do more.

  3. PurpleHaze says

    October 19, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    Google won’t invest squat until they stop being obsessed with smell phones.



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