Google Earth

aardvaak

I have recently seen that the aerial photo of my area has been updated to one of last year (previously 2002 photo).

Can anyone please tell me what triggers an update of the photos and is there any way to make the photos updated more often?

Ivor_Bigun

aardvaak wrote: »

I have recently seen that the aerial photo of my area has been updated to one of last year (previously 2002 photo).

Can anyone please tell me what triggers an update of the photos and is there any way to make the photos updated more often?

Depends when the plane goes over your area.

aardvaak

Ivor_Bigun wrote: »

Depends when the plane goes over your area.

Is it taken form a plane or satellite?

Poppycat

Its a plane you can see the strips of land that is stitched together as its taken at different times of the day, cloud, sunny etc

I dont think its updated too often in a given area

superscaper

Ivor_Bigun wrote: »

Depends when the plane goes over your area.

Depends on which plane as well. Google will buy the photos off certain aerial photography companies and Microsoft from other companies etc and so on. You won't always get the same photo on the different mapping systems (Google Earth isn't the only one).

aardvaak

(Google Earth isn't the only one).

What others are there?

jamborino

There's also Microsoft Virtual Earth.

superscaper

Plus things like multimap.com also use aerial photography as well. And pretty much any other mapping site.

nickj_2

google earth is made up of both aircraft and satelite images

Gavin57

Has anyone tried Microsoft Maps Live under the bird's eye tab. The images are very clear and allow you rotate to see from different angles.

buglawton

Strange, MS Aerial view zoomed to max is nowhere near as detailed as the one in MousePrice