Unplanned scavenger hunt from Google

Google updated their imagery (both Google Maps and Google Earth). Instead of listing the new coverage they’ve released a set of hints:

* Two states known for their majestic peaks have gotten an upgrade.
* I can now see where my favorite maple syrup is made.
* Certain Florida beaches (and 1 mountain) are looking much improved.
* Try counting the warthogs in the Boneyard.
* Peek inside the home of the Brew Crew.
* You can read the Skin’s logo painted on their field.
* An historic state capitol building is now in high res.
* This city was named after the Native American name of a nearby mountain, “Tacobet.”
* A “far away” city that played a key role in trans-Saharan trade can now be seen close up.
* The town where Jane Austen spent her final years is much clearer.
* The topic of Vincent van Gogh’s Cafe Terrace at Night is now bright as day.
* Take a look at “la ville noir,” where Cointreau was invented.
* Only a third of this country’s land is arable, but you can now view the entire country in high res.
* From 1880 to 1884 this German city was home to the world’s tallest building.
* Rockets may be used to disrupt rain clouds over this city next summer.
* This country received an impressive terrain update, you might call it Lord of the Terrain.

Details at the Google Lat Long Blog.

Google Earth maps atrocities in Darfur

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Search engine Google and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum launched an online mapping project on Tuesday to provide what the museum said was evidence of atrocities committed in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
Using high-resolution imagery, users can zoom into Darfur to view more than 1,600 damaged or destroyed villages, providing what the Holocaust Museum says is evidence of the genocide. Sudan’s government denies that genocide is taking place.

In addition, the remnants of more than 100,000 homes, schools, mosques and other structures destroyed by janjaweed militia in Darfur, Sudanese forces and others are visible.

Refugee Camp in West Darfur (Google Maps)
Refugee Camp in West Darfur

From Yahoo News.

Google Updates New Orleans Imagery

Back in September 2006 Google replaced the post Katrina imagery with much higher resolution pre-Katrina imagery. In the last few weeks some people have been trying to make a case out of this as some conspiracy on the part of Google. Responding to this criticism Google has expedited the inclusion of new high-res post-Katrina imagery and has them up on both GE and GM.

More details at the Official Google Blog.

As a side note, the latest GE updates from last week are in GM as of today too.

March 28 – List of new Bird’s Eye View cities

New cities with Birds Eye Coverage around the world

United Kingdom
Bedford, Chesterfield, Hull, Ipswich, Lowestoft, Morecambe, Carlisle, Tamworth, Aylesbury, Exeter, Kettinger, Newport, Pontypool, Stafford, Rugby, Taunton, Torbay

Germany
Bremerhaven, Celle, Delmenhorst, Esslingen, Ibbenbuerren, Oldenburg, Osnabrueck, Rheine, Wilhelmshaven, Aachen, Bremen, Flensburg, Fulda, Hamln, Herford, Minden, Muenster, Wetzlar, Ahlen, Arnsberg, Emden, Lippstadt, Wesel, Kassel, Neustadt

Italy
Naples, Bolzano, Cagliari, Trieste, Messina

United States
Chicago, Ventura County California, Broomfield Colorodo, Pinellas Florida, Charleston South Carolina

Spain
Pamplona, Seville

Switzerland
Bern, Geneva

The Netherlands
The Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht

Norway
Oslo, Trondheim

Belgium
Antwerp

France
Grenoble, Limoges, Tours

New Ultracam Hi resolution Ortho Imagery
Austin, Cheektowaga, Calgary, Glendale, Toronto, Manhattan, Hamilton, Portland, Buffalo, Ottawa

GlobeXplorer Orthos
Ventura, St. Louis, Santa Barbara, San Diego, San Bernardino County, Riverside County

From Live Maps / Virtual Earth Blog.

March 28 Bird’s Eye View Update

There has been no official announcement yet but this is what I’ve been able to derive by poking around:

United States

  • Charleston, SC
  • Clearwater / Largo / South St Petersburg, FL
  • San Francisco Bay, CA

United Kingdom

  • Aylesbury
  • Bedford
  • Birmingham
  • Carlisle
  • Chesterfield
  • Coventry
  • Exeter
  • Hull
  • Ipswitch
  • Kettering
  • Lowesoft
  • Newport
  • Morecambe / Lancaster
  • Stafford
  • Torbay (Paignton / Torquay)

Germany

  • Aachen
  • Bremen
  • Bremerhaven
  • Celle
  • Flennsburg
  • Fulda
  • Hamlen
  • Ibbenburen
  • Kassel
  • Lippstadt
  • Minden
  • Munster
  • Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
  • Oldenburg
  • Osnabruck
  • Stuttgart (expanded)
  • Wesel
  • Wetzlar
  • Wilhemshaven

Italy

  • Calgiari (Sardinia)
  • Messina (Sicily)
  • Naples
  • Trieste

France

  • Grenoble
  • Limoges
  • Tours

Switzerland

  • Berne
  • Geneva

Spain

  • Pamplona
  • Seville

Netherlands

  • Rotterdam
  • Utrecht

Belgium

  • Antwerp

Finland

  • Helsinki

Norway

  • Oslo
  • Trondheim

March 29 – New and Updated Google Earth Imagery

New high resolution:

Canada: Downtown Vancouver, BC
England: Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Berkshire, Peak District,
Birmingham, Greater Manchester, Avon, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire
France: Rennes, Poitiers
US: Omaha, NE; Missoula, MT; Amherst, MA; Keowee, SC;
Catawba Wateree, NC/SC; Rolla, MO; Nashville (“Burbia”), TN; US Gaston
County, NC; Anne Arundel County, Metro Water District of Southern
California; State of Arkansas

Updated Imagery:

Spain: Gran Canaria, Fuertaventura, El Hierro, La Gomera, Tenerife, and Las
Palmas (Canary Islands) Spain
US: Austin, TX; San Bernardino, CA; State of Connecticut

From The Google Earth Forum The Google Earth Forum

Massive Bird’s Eye View Update (US & Europe)

US: 21 new cities in 15 states
Europe: 167 new cities in 6 countries

News from Bird’s Eye Tourist:

France

Aix-En-Provence
Antibes
Arles
Avignon
Beziers
Cannes
Chambery
Clermont Ferrand
La Rochelle
Lyon
Marseille
Monte Carlo
Montpellier
Nice
Nimes
Perpignan
Poitiers
Saint-Etienne
Toulouse
Bordeaux
Chateauroux

Netherlands

Breda
Groningen
Kerkade
Maastricht
Nijmegen
Oss
Venlo
Zwolle

Spain

Lleida
Tarragona
Toledo

Norway

Drammen

Italy

Imola
Sassari
Torino
Vercelli
Ancona
Arezzo
Bari
Benevento
Bergamo
Brindisi
Campobasso
Catania
Catanzaro
Chieti
Cosenza
Cremona
Crotone
Ferrara
Forli
Grosseto
Latina
Lecce
Livorno
Lodi
Mantova
Massa-Carrara
Padova
Palermo
Parma
Pavia
Perugia
Pesaro
Pescara
Piacenza
Pistoia
Prato
Ravenna
Reggio Calabria
Reggio Emilia
Rimini
Rovigo
Salerno
Taranto
Terni
Treviso
Viterbo
Ascoli Piceno
Brescia
Foggia
Lucca
Modena
Pordenone
Teramo
Udine
Vicenza
Carpi
Faenza
Mestre
Milan
Roma
Guidonia
Tivoli
Milano Neighbouring
Alessandria
Asti
Cesena
Chioggia
Fano
Genova
Matera
Moncalieri
Monza
Rivoli
Savona
Trento
Viareggio
Vigevano

Germany

Aalen
Aschaaffenburg
Augsburg
Baden-Baden
Bamberg
Bayreuth
Binz
Brandenburg
Chemnitz
Cottbus
Dessau
Dresden
Erfurt
Erlangen
Freiburg im Breisgau
Gera
Geoppingen
Gorelitz
Halle
Hanau
Heilbronn
Ingolstadt
Jena
Karslruhe
Kempten (Allgaeu)
Konstanz
Landshut
Leipzig
Lubeck
Ludwigsburg
Magdeburg
Mannheim
Munchen
Neumeunster
Nurenburg and Fuerth
Offenburg
Pforzheim
Plauen
Potsdam
Reutlingen
Rosenheim
Rostock
Saarbruecken
Sassnitz
Schwaebisch Gmuend
Sindlefingen
Speyer
Straslund
Stuttgart
Trier
Teubingen
Ulm
Villingen-Schwenningen
Waiblingen
Weimar
Wolfsburg
Wuerzburg

United States

Miami, FL
Miami Beach, FL
West Palm Beach, FL
Birmingham, AL
Houston, TX
Austin, TX
Plano, TX
Myrtle Beach, SC
Yuma, AZ
Everett, WA (Go for it pdunn)
Grand Junction, CO
Flint, MI
Princeton, NJ
Lafayette, LA
Bremerton, WA (hundreds of Navy ships and subs)
Jamestown, NY
York, PA
Logan Co., OK
Suffolk, VA
Roanoke, VA
Kitty Hawk, NC
Kill Devil Hills, NC

Also these areas expand coverage of areas already covered:

Middlesex Co, NJ Somerset and New Brunswick
Monmouth Co, NJ Middletown and LongBranch
Wayne Co, NY East of Rochester
Geauga Co, OH East of Cleveland
Lorain Co, OH West of Cleveland
York Co, PA York (South of Harrisburg)
Waukeesha Co, WI Waukeesha (W of Milwaukee)
Washington Co, AR West of Fayetteville
Osceola Co, FL Kissimmee and St Cloud
Benton Co, MN NE of St Cloud
Kandiyohi Co, MN SW of St Cloud
Graham Co, NC Robbinsville
Oswego Co, NY New Haven and Oswego
Washington Co, NY East of Saratoga Springs
Greene Co, PA SW corner of PA
Somervell Co, TX SW of Fort Worth
Webb Co, TX Laredo (border town)
Howard Co, MD SW of Baltimore
San Jacinto Co, TX N of Houston
Washington Co, WI NW of Milwaukee
Parker Co, TX W of Fort Worth
Logan Co, OK N of Oklahoma City
Clayton Co, GA. S of Atlanta

Google Earth Imagery Update – December 17

Terrain update:

In the first time in quite a while, we’ve updated terrain with a high resolution (3m) terrain inset for Mt. Saint Helens, Washington.

Imagery updates:
* Digital Globe updates all over the globe with the most notable being large
content additions in Somalia and Australia
* Updated US states: Indiana and Delaware
* Miscellaneous high res cities and counties in North America:
Monterey Bay, CA; Yakima County, WA; Summerland, Canada; Greater East
Wenatchee, WA; Polk County, IA; Warren County IA; and Bay County, FL
* Small high-res updates in the UK (Swansea, Edinburgh, Doncaster,
Gwent) and expanded London coverage
* High-res update in Bremerhaven, Germany.
* Newer imagery for Lanzarote (Canary Islands)
* Google Earth Blog-supplied XPrizeCup flyover and the Sanford, NC airport
* Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
* Foo Camp @ O’Reilly Headquarters in Sebastapol, CA