Google Earth 3D imagery progress

Google continues to push out new 3D imagery on a regular basis. However, an increasingly large proportion of it is updates to areas that already had 3D imagery. The updated areas are generally better quality and certainly welcome, but it does mean there is a noticeable decline in the amount of new area covered each month.

New area in square kilometres of 3D imagery covered by month. Note that we have not yet included all of the January and February, 2016 areas.

To see the area covered by 3D in Google Earth download our KML map.

We used to use the helpful online tool at Zonum Solutions to calculate the areas. However, it has a file size limit that our KML file has exceeded and a few other issues which make using it for our particular requirement quite tedious. So this time we used the area functions found in GeographicLib to do the calculations.

The US has almost double the area of 3D imagery of the rest of the world put together.

Country Km2 Argentina 1,417 Australia 3,578 Austria 2,717 Belgium 2,511 Brazil 5,114 Bulgaria 1,946 Canada 13,145 Chile 1,146 China 158 Czech Republic 3,262 Denmark 1,326 Finland 860 France 22,012 Hungary 3,062 Germany 17,989 Greece 911 Ireland 197 Italy 19,799 Japan 14,069 Kosovo 82 Luxembourg 126 Malta 176 Mexico 4,614 Montenegro 81 Netherlands 294 New Zealand 706 Norway 4,641 Philippines 714 Poland 2,858 Portugal 5,455 Puerto Rico 638 Romania 2,518 Spain 17,690 South Africa 1,458 Sweden 1,285 Switzerland 4,043 United Kingdom 11,195 United States 325,290

US State Km2 Alabama 8,575 Alaska 580 Arizona 8,394 Arkansas 3,671 California 35,875 Connecticut 2,790 Colorado 6,321 Delaware 525 Florida 25,144 Georgia 12,730 Hawaii 956 Idaho 1,646 Illinois 6,698 Indiana 6,797 Iowa 3,718 Kansas 4,789 Kentucky 2,723 Louisiana 5,970 Massachusetts 7,610 Maine 1,968 Maryland 2,106 Michigan 10,192 Missouri 5,317 Minnesota 6,693 Mississippi 4,392 Montana 1,348 Nebraska 1,696 Nevada 2,244 New Hampshire 1,513 New Jersey 2,509 New Mexico 2,111 New York 11,895 North Carolina 14,638 North Dakota 1,106 Ohio 10,107 Oklahoma 3,872 Oregon 5,404 Pennsylvania 7,700 Rhode Island – Tennessee 10,400 Texas 27,524 South Carolina 9,405 South Dakota 796 Utah 4,594 Vermont 261 Virginia 7,348 Washington 9,166 Wisconsin 9,914 West Virginia 2,347 Wyoming 1,212

Note that some 3D areas overlap borders and the areas are recorded in the country/state where the bulk of the 3D lies. So Rhode Island State, for example, does have 3D imagery but it is part of a large area mostly in Massachusetts.

Thank you to all the GEB readers that find new areas and a special thanks to the GEB readers who draw new areas for inclusion in our map. New areas are noted in the comments of this post. If you wish to submit outlines please first read through the instructions found here.