130 countries Google Earth Imagery Update - October 2nd

Google pushed out a new imagery update today - mostly 60 cm resolution satellite imagery. They haven't given out specifics yet, but the updates are in U.S., Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, India, China, Australia and New Zealand. Google has posted some clues to some of the locations in their post at the Google Lat-Long blog. The post does indicate that the imagery update touches over 130 countries and that it is a "significant amount of new or updated 60cm satellite imagery".

Google Earth Blog

As usual with image updates, the imagery update has not yet made it in Google Maps. The Maps image update normally happens a week or two after a Google Earth update.

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• Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, or look up to explore the sky
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Since Google Earth was launched, users have been exploring our world and creating content overlays (KML files) to share their explorations with others. We're now highlighting user-created KML files each week in the new Google Earth Gallery. You can also choose to add the gallery's Google Gadget to your iGoogle page.

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