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Major imagery update for Google Earth

September 5, 2008

It appears that Google Earth has just received a major imagery update.  There is no official word from Google yet, but Google Earth Blog is reporting a wide variety of updates.  They include:   US: Houston, TX — West Virginia — East Massachusetts — Albany, NY Areas of Australia Turkey Paris, France Near Toronto, Canada [...]

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Not done with the StreetView updates…

August 4, 2008

I thought it was just Australia and Japan, but I was wrong.  According to the Google LatLong blog, a bunch of US cities have been added as well. The LatLong blog lists a few of them, but the full list seems to be (based on a comment at Google Maps Mania): Eureka, CA Lancaster / [...]

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Huge Google Earth imagery update

July 12, 2008

Google is apparently rolling out a major imagery update for Google Earth, but the imagery has not yet made it into Google Maps.  This is actually a good thing, because it gives you a way to compare the two and see what the changes really are. Google Earth Blog has the details, but here is [...]

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Imagery update for Virtual Earth

June 25, 2008

While not nearly as big as their last update, Virtual Earth has about 20TB of new imagery now in place.  It includes quite a bit of new imagery in France, as well as various places around the world.  Sadly, it doesn’t appear that they’d added any more “version 2″ cities this month.  I’m dying to [...]

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Google imagery update underway?

May 27, 2008

It appears that a Google imagery update is happening, but it’s a bit different than the past few.  Recently, new imagery has been coming into Google Earth first, then it finds its way into Google Maps a few days later.  However, this time might be reversed. The city of Linz, Austria has different imagery when [...]

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Minor update to Google Earth

May 1, 2008

As reported by the Google Earth Blog, Google has released a minor update to Google Earth (version 4.3.7204.0836). There don’t appear to be any new features, just a handful of bug fixes. They include: Mac version only – Whenever a balloon has enough text to require a vertical scroll bar, the horizontal scroll bar shows [...]

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StreetView adds 13 new cities and a national park

March 28, 2008

To go along with adding StreetView to the Google Maps API today, Google has just added data for 13 new cities and Yosemite National Park. The 13 new cities are: Albuquerque, NM Anchorage, AK Austin, TX Cleveland, OH Fairbanks, AK Little Rock, AR Madison, WI Nashville, TN Rockford, IL Richmond, VA Spokane, WA St. Petersburg, [...]

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Image and terrain update for Google Earth

July 26, 2007

A bunch of new image and terrain data has been added to Google Earth today. Rather than tell us exactly what’s been added, Google’s decided to tease us. Here is what they’re saying has been updated: Two states known for their majestic peaks have gotten an upgrade. Colorado (KML) and Nevada (KML) I can now [...]

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Massive updates to Virtual Earth

July 4, 2007

Microsoft just announced a ton of new updates for Virtual Earth.  This includes: Updated road/hybrid map styling for the entire world Hillshaded roads for the entire world 3Di/Boulder hi-res orthos for 44 cities in 10 states, along with a bit in Canada and some in France. New or expanded 3D models in 47 cities, along [...]

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