Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Google Maps Satellite Imagery Update



Google Earth received a large image update on the 19th February. The update now seems to have been rolled out to Google Maps.

Here is the full list of changes from the Google LatLong blog:

New high resolution:
Americas:
- Canada: Significant amount of British Columbia, Oxford County (Ontario)
- USA: Madera (CA), Fernly (NV), Silver Springs (NV), Yerington (NV),
Cambria (CA), Creston (CA), Delaware, Connecticut

EMEA:
- Spain: Avila, Burgos, San Sebastian
- Portugal: Lisbon

- South Africa: 2.5m imagery for western half of the country

Asia & Oceania:
- New Zealand: Auckland, Wanganui Province, Tararua Province
- Australia: Sydney, Newcastle

Updated Imagery:
Americas:
- Canada: Vancouver
- USA: Portland (OR), Bay Area (SF, Oakland, Peninsula), San Simeon (CA),
Morro Bay (CA), Garden Farms (CA), San Louis Obispo (CA), Arroyo
Grande (CA), Nipomo (CA), Santa Maria (CA), California City (CA),
San Bernardino County (CA), Riverside County (CA), Salt Lake City (UT),
Denver (CO), Kalamazoo (MI), Detroit (MI), Hardee County (FL),
Martin County (FL), Tampa (FL), Philadelphia (PA), Boston (MA)
Onodaga County (NY), Norfolk (VA), Island County (WA), the state of
Hawaii, the state of Ohio, the state of Louisiana, the state of Virginia,
and the state New Jersey.
- Cuba: Havana - Brazil: Sao Paolo EMEA:
- France: Tours - Italy: Torino
- Spain: Almeria, Logrono, Pamplona, Santander, Segovia, Valladolid, Alicante,
Bilbao, Castellon, Cordoba, Coruna, Costa Blanca, Elche, Gijon, Huelva,
Leon, Oviedo, Salamanca, Vigo, Vitoria, Catalunya, Andalucia
- UK: Kent, Norfolk
- Switzerland: Zimmerburg, Pfannenstiel
- Denmark: Copenhagen
- Finland: Helsinki
- Norway: Oslo
- Iceland: Reykijavik
- Ukraine: Kiev
- Latvia: Riga
- Serbia: Belgrade
- Kenya: Nairobi
- Senegal: Dakar

Asia:
- Turkmenistan: Ashkhabad
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek
- Myanmar: Rangoon

4 comments:

Big Frank Dickinson said...

What a great blog - I am going to enjoy exploring.

Thanks -

Big Frank Dickinson

Prokur said...

Riga sights and photos better to watch on my blog :)


thank you for updating maps of my favourite city :D

Anonymous said...

Why isn't there a label for blog posts on imagery updates? I'd like to have list of all the blog posts regarding this topic in order to see whether the German wikipedia article is right about the frequency of the updates.

Mike Pegg said...

You can just open all posts with "Google Maps" :
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/search/label/Google%20Maps
...and search in-page for "imagery" or "imagery update"