Google Earth Image Upgrade

Andrew Hallam | | 4 December 2005, 07:41

Back in October 2005 I wrote about what appeared to be an image rectification issue in the Google Earth imagery in the Sydney (Australia) area. This problem had been enough to discourage me from using Google Earth to display high resolution vector data.

Well, I have to review my position because Google have provided some new raster data over Sydney, and it is higher resolution. The edge matching issue has gone away, and I’m keen to see how well the vectors match with the new imagery.

The old:

The old image

The new:

The new image

Nice!

Comments [2] »

  1. Andrew, It looks like they just traded one problem for another. The edge matching problem went away, but they seem to have lost image resolution. While we can at least tell that the trees are trees in the first image, it looks like a field of coal in the second.

    What really put me off Google Earth, it the antiquity of the images. I found the address of one of my sisters. They have lived in their present house for at least seven years. The image shown, and I recognize the neighborhood and location as being correct, is of an empty lot.

    But then again, you get what you pay for.

    Don — 20 January 2006, 17:45

  2. Doesn't look as good and disrupts zoom quality

    Jimbo — 9 March 2007, 03:32

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