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just looked at the Face in Canada.... thanks for the link.... Has Hoagland seen this???

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(I took a look at my house .. old photo. From at least 5 years ago - probably more, based on the trees) - what's interesting is that other areas - a mile or so away, are much more recent

After the edit, I looked a little more and found that other areas which had been okay the first time were now fuzzed out. I really don't understand this. It's been fine since then, however.

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New huge update.

There was another update a while ago, which included cities in Europe and United States and complete coverages of California and Netherlands and more.

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Google Earth was developed from Keyhole, a commercial program which had 30 days free trial. I remember it was awesome to see individual cars in London. With this new release even pedestrians are easily discernible. The imaging time seems to be well after noon, so everyone have long shadows.

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Port Townsend, WA! I was so thrilled to see it added that I had to launch GE immediately and take a look. And disappointed to see that they STILL haven't extended the hi-res area to my house just a few miles from town.

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Surprisingly enough, my home is visible in high resolution. It is located in one of the few high-resolution patches in my country. Unfortunately it is located under a cloud shadow and the image is taken in early spring when ground was still covered by snow. Northern Europe is really poorly covered in Google Earth.

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Although it is hard to say exactly what places have been updated, there are clearly many more hi-res regions now available. For example, parts of the Sunda Strait have been updated (but still not Krakatoa, dammit!) and Mount Olga near Uluru in Australia. I've been in Zambia (in 2001, for obvious reasons...), and I regularly check it--there's lot more coverage in western region, unfortunately not in the places I've been.

Oh, I forgot to mention that a short while ago all Japan's buildings became available in 3D!

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nuh- still can't zoom into the last level where I live...

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Highest resolution areas are rather limited.

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I do find it faintly creepy that I can zoom in on where I live and can easily make out my brothers red Grand Cherokee in its parking spot. And in the next moment peer down into peoples backyards in the middle of Africa to see two overstuffed chairs facing a tv set.

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Yay! They updated Westend Toronto. I can now plot my house and property down to the foot!

W 43 36'04.23" N 79 29'59.93

The Google Earth Space Atlas was put together in honour of the Wirefly X PRIZE Cup. The concept is to have to have one location for a map of Google Earth placemarks for anything space-related on the Earth. We have pulled together collections from the Google Earth Community, and created a wealth of new material. Included are placemarks to space centres of many countries, launch sites, space museums, planetariums, moon trees, meteor impact craters, space shuttle landing sites, and more

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New update!

Terrain resolution really makes a difference. If you don't believe me, check Mount St. Helens, which has also high resolution terrain. Remember to set the terrain quality at maximum at the settings.

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My hometown is still a white blur with a marker

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My house lot is in high-res. It has been since I first downloaded Google Earth years ago.

Thing is, the lot's still vacant. I had the house I live in built three and a half years ago, it took four months to construct, and the streets were paved a year before that. According to Google Earth, I currently live in a big open field, and a satellite hasn't passed over my property in nearly five years.

Ummm. I think there is .

I have encountered that where I looked for a place , and while tracking , theres the date when it has been shot.

I have to checked it again.

It was not that long ago when Matterhorn was basically missing (the terrain resolution wasn't high enough to show the peak). Look now...

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You can find the dates for Digital Globe images by activating the Digital Globe Coverage layers. It is somewhat clumsy, but I don't know any better way.

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10% of Berlin (ca. 44,000 buildings) is now in 3D!

The models are not yet in Google Earth, but you can fetch the collection here (I got a 404 error when opened the file, though).

Hamburg was supposed to be the first 3D town in GE, but apparently Berlin got first.

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Google Earth Blog: New Imagery for Google Earth - June 2nd!

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Google Earth Blog: Google Releases High Resolution Terrain - Western US and Canaries

I checked the Crater Lake in Oregon--you can see the small caldera on the summit of the Wizard Island. Too bad the high-resolution imagery doesn't yet cover the lake.

On La Palma--pan over the central island. High resolution imagery + terrain is just awesome.

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I don't know if it was affected at all, but Mt. St. Helens looks worse than it did before. The image and the terrain are barely lined up at all.

If you look at the bottom of the screen there is a 'percent loaded' progress indicator. Sometimes it hangs and I have to restart the program. Just a thought.

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can I see my city thereon in the earth.google and how?

Your home city is visible at least in low resolution which allows you to find the approximate location of your home if you know where it is. The default resolution is not good enough to discern individual buildings, however. On the other hand, if your city is located in an area that has high resolution available, you should be able to find your home easily.

Google Maps has the same imagery as Google Earth but it takes a while until it gets updated. To view Google Maps you require nothing but an Internet browser, but Google Earth is a standalone application that can be downloaded here for free. It should work even on a low-end computer but to view high-resolution terrain or buildings you need a fairly new machine.

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Gatwick airport is still missing the new air bridge.

I see no-one's put offshore installations either.

Still practically no hi-res of the Scottish Highlands

At least they added some for Lewis, Harris and the Shetland Isles a while ago.

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Aberdeenshire is pretty sparse too. How am I supposed to spy on the yards of the Portlethen suppliers?

As a Brother Cadfael fan, I glad to finally see some hi-res of Shrewsbury. Now they just need to get rid of that car park and reconstruct the Abbey grounds!

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