: Can you see your house from here.. now?
Frank Taylor over at the Google Earth Blog has the scoop on a Google Maps satellite update that he has posted about. Here is a summary of locations that have seen updates:
- Most of California is now in high res. (Example: "Kerman, Ca")
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Many updates in Texas, but still some remote areas not covered. A lot of east Texas is now high resolution. (Example: "San Augustine, Tx", Follow along I-10 in West Texas...lots of new areas there.) - Areas in North Carolina: Wilmington, NC - new data noticeable along the beach
- Looks like the entire state of Connecticut is in high res now: Hartford, Waterbury, Southbury
- Big areas in southeast New Hampshire including: Keene, Nashua
- The rest of the Netherlands now in high res - Except some military bases are now "speckled" so you can't see them.
- Southern part of the state of Georgia
- The coastline of Maine all new high resolution areas all along the coast from the southeastern tip to Banghor, Maine, as well as Belfast.
- Entire state of Montana - see Glacier National Park.
- Big areas in Belgium have been added or updated: Antwerp and Brussels
- Takamatsu, Japan - new high-res of this metropolitan area
- Norway now has Bergen, Norway and the area surrounding
- Auckland, New Zealand area has new improved photos
- Watch the comments of the post on the Google Earth Blog for more!
What about your area? Take a look, then post a comment if your region now has high resolution satellite imagery, but did not previously!
21 comments:
Downtown areas of Olympia, Washington have gotten high-resolution where they weren't before. (I can see my house now!)
The new imagery is appearing in the API (judging by those first 2 links)...
http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=36.723613,-120.058894&z=17
http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=31.529714,-94.10584&z=16
Cooool!
Yeah, a quick peek over on Wikimapia yields the same result!
Nice!
I can't confirm any new data for the Olympia, WA area when comparing to Google Earth. Can you be more specific? Maybe what you are seeing was part of the June update?
Japan now includes detail around Lake Ashi - including the ferry boat but not detailed enough to see the nude bathers in Mori-no-yu hot-spring - see photo.
I think there's also a large area around Shizuoka which is new, showing the new Tomei Expressway under construction.
Thanks for this blog.
FYI the correct spelling is BANGOR not BANGHOR
I figured since we need to know the site names spelled correctly you may want to just edit it.
I am not picking on you, I am not one of the Spelling Police. LOL.
i think there were parst of sydney city which are better now. great site by the way!
PLease add a High-resolution image for the Philippines! Thank you!especially around the visayas and mindanao region! Thanks guys!
Oddly enough, Google Maps does not have the new hi-res satellite images of Guayaquil, Ecuador, that Google Earth does have. Now I can see my house in Google Earth!
PICSFROMSPACE,lookup your place by address
Free online tool showing satelliteimages at streetlevel of the given address
Check this out:
www.walweb.nl/picsfromspace
The imagery resolution in Sindangan town in Zamboanga is not clear. Is there a plan to update the resolution so that my people in our town will be happy or at least can see their houses in the web. ( hope to consider my request besides, the area is not too big)
Lat - 8-deg 13'57.49"N
Long - 122-deg 59'57.95"E
Its more fun to view satellite image of my home through google earth explorer and its free and you can see 3d terrain,rotate or tilt the planet and it moves very fast.If you want to view satellite image of your house or the entire earth,
download the free version of google earth explorer
Lancaster in the UK is completly out of date - there are buildings over three years old still not being displayed, including my house. I can't understand why they don't update it.
How to request Google to update their map to the current?
Rosario City in Argentina is the second city in the country. Yet its imagery in Google Earth is the worst in the world. An awful comfination of high resolution (1/3 of the area), low resolution (1/5 of the area) and some resolution covered by a compact mass of clouds makes the whole thing look like the character impersonated by Boris Karloff: Frankenstein's Monster. And it's been like that for a long time now. Any idea of an extreme make up for that poor city of mine?
Best wishes. Sasum
Looking at two wildly different points on Earth, I was absolutely gobsmacked to see a street scape of my first flat at 49 Brown Street, Dunedin, New Zealand, and no appearance of the first new bridge over the river Cam, Cambridge, England, in 40 years....I remain amazed by Google maps, and always refer to it...Keep up the good work!
P.S Cambridge, England could do with being updated!
Kind regards,
CH x
This area of Kissimmee, FL needs to be updated.
It shows construction site imagery and my house was built about 3 years ago !
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=28.215853,-81.453667&spn=0.018341,0.027637&z=15
The imagery resolution of Misamis Occidental is not clear.I would like to request to update the image resolution so that my people in our place can see the aerial view of Misamis Occidental, especially Oroquieta City. The place is situated in Northern Mindanao, Philippines.The place covering from Lat-8deg 31'N ; Long-123deg 46'E upto Lat-8deg 5'N ;Long-123deg 47' E.
lfgc - I'm afraid I have nothing to do with Google or Google Maps.
You might find this post on the Google Earth Blog about Google's satellite imagery informative.
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/02/about_google_earth_imagery.html
I would like to request high resolution update to this part of Bogra, Bangladesh. It's a very popular, industrial and historical district of the country. There are so many roads and buildings which are not there in the map since it's too backdated.
http://g.co/maps/dru2e
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