Over the course of 2016, Google Earth received about 90,000 square kilometres of new 3D imagery (about the area of Portugal). This represents a significant slowdown in new area covered:
New area of 3D imagery by year in square kilometres.
New area of 3D imagery by month in square kilometres.
However, a lot of previously existing areas received updates, either with freshly captured imagery or reprocessed imagery, but such updates are impossible to track in terms of area.
Three new countries received imagery this year, Tunisia, Malaysia, and most recently Slovenia.
As always, a big thank you to all the GEB readers who contribute to our KML map of 3D areas
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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.