With the release of Google Earth 6.2 this week, Google was very proud to announce that the earth mapping software now has one smooth satellite image of the planet instead of a map patched together by images taken at different times.
The globe looked a bit like a quilt instead of a fluid image, but that challenge has now been eliminated.
Says Google: "We're introducing a new way of ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by MrBarlow: Now all they have to do is update the actual maps...
my house is still how it looked before we bought it, and we moved here in 2006...
Move to a busier area. City areas that tend to change more often are re-imaged once a year or so, but rural areas (esp. if near large areas of uninhabited land) are mostly ignored if they already have an image.
Originally posted by xnonsuchx: Move to a busier area. City areas that tend to change more often are re-imaged once a year or so, but rural areas (esp. if near large areas of uninhabited land) are mostly ignored if they already have an image.
Well not mine, i live in a uk city of approx 350k..
the streetview is more recent (but even that is about 2yrs old), but the sat maps show my street very old...
