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Google Zooms In Satellite Map Imagery

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

January 24, 2006, 1:21 PM

Google on Tuesday updated the satellite images in its Google Earth software and Google Local search, adding two more zoom levels that provide a close-up birds-eye view of locations around the world. The change comes after Microsoft's Windows Live Local added similar capabilities.

"Now for many areas around the world you can see a lot more detail than you could before," said Google Earth team member Chikai Ohazama. "Take a look at people standing at the gates of Buckingham Palace in London, or jump over the pond and see the Statue of Liberty in New York."

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By daz18

edited Apr 25, 2007 - 6:38 PM

why are updated images comming in but sanur, Bali, Indonesia is still same images as 2006 June. I am building house and would like to see updates from Australia to Indonesia

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By minus_seven_fold

posted Jan 26, 2006 - 11:29 AM

Now anyone can see Bush whenever they want!!!

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By DeadFly

posted Jan 25, 2006 - 6:10 PM

FYI... the pic with my house is pretty recent, the elm tree I cut down this past summer isn't in the picture.

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By udon

edited Jan 25, 2006 - 3:37 PM

Try viewing anywhere in Thailand or SEA...... or rural Australia.... a waste of time.

Glad I didn't buy google earth.

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By Djarum

posted Jan 25, 2006 - 2:46 PM

I live in Manhattan, NYC and judging by the status of some construction projects, there are a lot of areas (particularly downtown) that are still showing photos over 3-4 years old.

Did they update the actual images, or just the zoom levels? I would've thought Manhattan of all places would've been updated a bit more frequently.

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By midiaa

posted Jan 25, 2006 - 11:31 AM

Hey! I can see my house from here!

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By ZeroEpoch

posted Jan 25, 2006 - 1:34 AM

The paranoid will start going outside on cloudy days only.

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By munga42

posted Jan 26, 2006 - 10:54 AM

hahaha

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By utomo

posted Jan 25, 2006 - 1:21 AM

They need more coverage.
try to find Bali or some capital city in Asia, such as Jakarta. and what you get ?

if Google did not have Bali which is nice and famous, do you think it is good enough ?

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By ovitz

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 10:02 PM

Add high res images of Milwaukee. This sucks compared to Keyhole, which did have high res Milwaukee images!

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By itanshi

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 6:05 PM

i dunno http://local.google.com/...001078,0.002763&t=k

stuff like that is wierd

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By Kramy

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 9:09 PM

Ooh, I can spot where they connected two strips of images they took! =D

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By school1012

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 4:58 PM

Local.Live.com's birds eye view still wallks all over google.

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By PC_Tool

edited Jan 24, 2006 - 5:09 PM

Yeah, but if it ain't available for the locations I'm interested in, what good is it?

;P

So there.

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By school1012

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 6:53 PM

And there are alot of areas that google does not have any sat. images where I am, so what good is it.

Franklin Squre, NY I HUGE area google has to sat. images while local.live does

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By PC_Tool

posted Jan 25, 2006 - 9:05 AM

Glad I don't live there then... ;P

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By PC_Tool

edited Jan 24, 2006 - 4:26 PM

At least 1 1/2 years out of date. The school that went up last year is barely dug out in the sat. image.

Got a long way to go to real-time, I guess... Same season would be nice, though.

Was able to pick my truck out in the parking lot though, so I guess that's progress. I can prove I spent some time here...someday...over a year ago...

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By Black-Wolf

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 3:47 PM

i wish i can see my face one day via satellite, oh! and real time too.

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By tubaman

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 5:25 PM

Men in Black style, haha. That'd be sweet.

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By Kramy

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 3:18 PM

Those cars aren't so blurry anymore.

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By spiked

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 1:52 PM

I'll bet the US government is dying to subpoena these searches, too.

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By yizuman

posted Jan 24, 2006 - 3:57 PM

Yeppa, Big Brother loves to get their hands on anything.

Privacy? No such thing here or anywhere for that matter.

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