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From the Google Earth Blog:

* Saudi Arabia
* Afghanistan - large areas with medium resolution Spot Image
* France - Department of Gard, Normandy (Omaha Beach). Also: departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. - Thanks 'mortimer'; Also: Oise, Nièvre, Puy-de-Dôme, Finistère, Côtes-d'Armor Côte-d'Or, Gers, Dordogne, Lot, Corrèze, Creuse, Cher, Loir-et-Cher, Loiret, Orne, Maine-et-Loire, Corse-du-Sud, Haute-Corse, Haute-Loire
* India - Akola, Maharashta, Sirur, Chinchosi, Kon Goan, Utran, and other areas in the northwest
* US - New colorization; Tampa, Florida
* Egypt - Gaza Pyramids - Thanks Ernie. (Try to ignore the current ugly 3D models for the pyramids, they'll be replaced I'm told). Also, western half of Egypt has medium resolution Spot Image.
* Canada - Surrey, BC - thanks Daniel. Also: Québec / Bas-Saint-Laurent: Saint-Fabien and Mont-Joli and in Gaspésie: Métis-sur-Mer, Sainte-Flavie. Note: "BIG mistake fron GE team, the Rimouski region (Québec) is marked "Haute-Côte-Nord" (Upper North Coast)the Upper North Coast is located where the Saguenay River flows into it..."
* Thailand - Prachuap Khiri Khan province, along the boundary to Myanmar. - Thanks Andy. Chiang Khong
* China - Hong Kong, Kowloon, Fuzhou
* Japan - Mount Fuji
* Iran - Spot Image
* Pakistan - Spot Image
* Austria - Vienna
* Italy - Venice, Pisa (reportedly very high resolution)
* Luxemborg - Southwestern part
* Spain - Northern part around Costa Brava
* Cambodia - Kampot & Kep
* Tajikistan - Eastern half

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Bing Maps Blog announced their May imagery release. Instead of providing a ginormous list of locations they presented a slick new toy - Bing Maps World Tour

Unfortunately, there's no new BEV...again.

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The first Theme Weekend has started. The theme is Airports and Runways. Everyone has until noon Pacific time on Tuesday May 26 to post as many of them as possible.

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So far just in GE. From the Lat Long Blog.

- USA: Muscatine County (IA), Parts of Champaign County (IL), Parts of Benton County (AR), Parts of Washington County (AR), parts of Washington State, and parts of Michigan

- Mexico: Puebla, Toluca, Puerto Vallarta

- Brazil: Porto Alegre

- French Guiana: Northern Coast

Europe, Middle East, & Africa:

- Great Britain: Large parts of Scotland and considerable amounts of England

- France: Departments of Seine-Maritime, Calvados, Val-d'Oise, Yvelines, Essonne, Seine-et-Marne, Aube, Yonne, Sarthe, Vosges, Territiore de Belfort, Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cantal, Aveyron, Aude, Bouches-du-Rhône, Saône-et-Loire, Haute-Savoie, Savoie, Martinique (Caribbean Sea), Mayotte (Indian Sea)

- Italy: Costa Smeralda (Sardegna), Genova (Liguria), Milano (Lombardia), Lago Maggiore (Piemonte/Lombardia)

- Spain: Cádiz

- Switzerland: Engelberg

Asia & Oceania:

- New Zealand: Palmerston

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Find-It Game #17 is now up.

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This release is a mere 9+ TB of data; however, it covers over 1 million square kilometers of Earth. Here’s the list of new areas that came online or were refreshed this month – all ortho, but a mix of satellite imagery and aerial photography....per Chris Pendleton's Blog.

No new Birds Eye for the second straight month.

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Find-It Game #16 is now up.

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Find-It Game #15 is now up.

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