Author: kjfitz

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The first cities in Italy

* Rome
* Venice
* Florence
* Turin
* Pisa
* Siena
* Bologna

Here is a list of the US Counties and the major city in each with new or expanded Birds Eye Coverage.

* Pima, AZ (Tucson)
* Alameda, CA (Oakland)
* Contra Costa, CA (Walnut Creek)
* Sacramento, CA (Sacramento)
* San Mateo, CA (South San Francisco)
* Santa Barbara, CA (Santa Barbara)
* Sonoma, CA (Santa Rosa)
* Santa Clara, CA (San Jose)
* Adams, CO (Denver)
* Arapahoe, CO (Denver)
* Hillsborough, FL (Tampa)
* St. Louis, MO (St. Louis)
* Essex, NJ ( Newark)
* Jersey Shore, NJ (Jersey Shore)
* Washoe, NV (Reno)
* Monroe, NY (Rochester)
* Nassau, NY (Long beach)
* Onondaga, NY (Syracuse)
* Suffolk, NY (Smithtown)
* Suffolk, NY (Smithtown)
* Hamilton, OH (Cincinnati)

Lots of new and updated cities have been added in the UK, including:

* North London
* Ashford
* Bath
* Blackpool
* Bognor Regis
* Bournemouth
* Caerphilly
* Cardiff
* Cheltenham and Gloucester
* Clacton-on-Sea
* Colchester
* Coventry
* Derby
* Doncaster
* Eastbourne
* FolkStone and Hythe
* Great Yarmouth
* Hastings and Bexhill
* Hereford
* Leicester
* Lincoln
* Northampton Urban Area
* Norwich
* Oxford
* Peterborough
* Preston
* Southend
* Sheffield
* Shrewsbury
* Southport
* Stoke
* Swansea
* Thanet
* Whitstable and Herene Bay
* Worcester

They are also out of Beta now.

Countries with Comprehensive Coverage:

Andorra
Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France (including Corsica)
Germany
Ireland
Italy (including Sicily and Sardinia)
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Monaco
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
San Marino
Spain (include Ceuta, Canary Islands, Mallorca, Menorca)
Switzerland
Sweden
United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar)
Vatican City

Countries with Major Coverage:

Czech Republic
Poland

Capitol City Coverage:

Bulgaria
Croatia
Estonia
Greece
Hungary
Latvia
Lithuania
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia

From Google Earth Forums:

On October 3rd, we updated Google Maps and Google Earth with the following new imagery:

– the whole state of Minnesota, South Carolina, North Dakota, Missouri (updated to 2005), Idaho, Maryland, and now full coverage for the entire state of Texas
– Updates to Florida (most of the state covered now)
– 15 high-resolution cities in Germany
– update for London, 2006 data at 10cm from Bluesky
– South Georgia Island (courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey)
– Albany, OR; Lubbock, TX; Port Townsend, WA; Portage County, OH; Trumball County, OH
– 32 Digital Globe Citisphere cities (updates and new coverage)

In addition there was a significant update to the regular Digital Globe imagery all over the world.

A year ago today the first posts were made to this site.

Here’s the oldest post:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/2/

(Don’t know what the first one was, maybe it was rejected as being a dupe….)

It has been a great year. We’re up over 15000 maps posted and bzillions of map views.

We couldn’t have done it without the active participation of all of you.

(A special thanks to Nic for having built us all such a fun playgound.)