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Post by aw on Jun 9, 2012 9:22:56 GMT
How out of date is google earth? According to thier most recent footage of Plainmoor we haven`t even started demolition of the old grandstand, p1ss poor if you ask me. I thought they had a satellite up in orbit that constantly refreshed their data, obviously not!
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Post by loyalgull on Jun 9, 2012 9:31:33 GMT
i googled my house recently and sat on my drive was a car i got rid of 2 years ago,so very outdated
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Post by Ditmar van Nostrilboy on Jun 10, 2012 7:40:30 GMT
It would cost even a monster like Google a fortune to keep near real-time updating guys.
You did used to be able to right click and it would give you the date the shot was taken.
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Post by aw on Jun 10, 2012 8:18:50 GMT
We realise this but for images to be a couple of years out of date is pretty p1ss poor to say the least!
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Post by JamesB on Jun 10, 2012 17:09:07 GMT
Most Google Earth images are well out of date. They only update a set of images once every 2 or 3 years, if not longer - the images of where I live in the Rhondda were only updated about a year ago, having previously been images that were about 10 years old. It's only in the cities which are constantly developing themselves that are updated once a year
If you look in the bottom left corner of the screen when on GE, it should tell you when they were taken
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Post by the92ndfish on Jun 12, 2012 18:45:41 GMT
We realise this but for images to be a couple of years out of date is pretty p1ss poor to say the least! Not really, it is the whole world they are photographing, that's a bit of a logistical challenge to say the least... Besides most medium sized towns don't change a great deal over 2/3 years aside from housing and commercial developments on their outskirts. |
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Post by Rags on Jun 13, 2012 5:58:37 GMT
What? A company with an annual profits of roughly 10 BILLION dollars and its own specialised fleet of planes can't afford/haven't the resources to update its imagery? No chance.
If there's a reason the imagery is out-dated its got to be either political (eg the complaints about security risks are hitting home at the high political level that Google now operates) or commercial (eg they are selling the most up-to-date imagery to interested organisations and passing on the old images that have no resale value the free user, ie us).
Make no mistake, Google will have access to satellite imagery that is days old; if we don't have access to it then there will be a reason.
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Post by JamesB on Jun 14, 2012 11:36:34 GMT
Cloud cover matters. The images are taken from a satellite (or satellites). I've noticed clouds a few times on the images, as well as shadows from clouds
I think they spend more time updating the cities because 1) that's where most people live, 2) that's where most businesses are located, and 3) there are more developments there. If very little is changing in a place like Torquay (and let's face it, one stand at a football ground being demolished is hardly significant), then why bother wasting time and money to update?
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Post by Ditmar van Nostrilboy on Jun 15, 2012 9:00:32 GMT
What? A company with an annual profits of roughly 10 BILLION dollars and its own specialised fleet of planes can't afford/haven't the resources to update its imagery? No chance. Rags, a company that makes that much profit doesnt achieve those profits by pi**ing its money up against a wall, something that continual updates of earth/street view would be doing  |
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