How old are the satellite pics on Google Maps?

[Enola_Straight]

On March 24. 2004, Veterans Stadium in Phila. PA was demolished: The wreckage debris is still visible in the pic.

[jasonh300]

I just checked out maps.live.com of my house and it’s a really fuzzy picture, but definitely Post-Katrina, and after I moved back into the house last October.

But, check out the Bird’s eye view. I don’t know if it’s just here, but it was a much clearer picture and you can see it from 4 different angles. The 4 shots were taken pretty close together. I noticed one car moved in my neighborhood in one of the shots, but I can clearly identify my cars. My guess is that they were taken between October of 2006 and March of 2007 due to some landscaping I did in March.

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

Google maps and Google Earth still have terrible low-res views of my area. Which is odd, as going just a few miles north and a few miles south brings one into areas with very sharp detail, and relatively up to date, too.

My home must be under some clandestine government blurring program.

[Mister_Rik]

@Enola Straight

On March 24. 2004, Veterans Stadium in Phila. PA was demolished: The wreckage debris is still visible in the pic.

Google Earth also shows the San Diego Padres’ PETCO Park in the early stages of construction.

[Mister_Rik]

Does maps.live.com require Windows? Because I’m checking it out using Safari on a Mac, and I’m not seeing any satellite photos. Just plain old maps.

[LurkMeister]

Earlier this year when I checked my location using Google Maps it showed most of the condo complex where I now live as still under construction. The building I lived in was just a clewared space on an unpaved road. Now it shows all of the buildings, including the ones that were still being built when I moved in. So they must have just updated the satellite pictures.

[aldiboronti]

@Colophon

Where are you finding that? I tried switching on the relevant layer in Google Earth, but I just get a mishmash of loads of overlapping squares and dates, which you can only see when zoomed out, so it’s impossible to see which date is the one for the area you’re looking at. FWIW I didn’t even see a 30 August 2007 for the area in Belfast you were looking at. There was a 2007-09-30, but also loads of others nearby. I can’t see any easy way of finding out which pic you’re actually looking at.

I used the scientific method. I picked the nearest one.

I agree, it’s a chaos of overlapping squares, and going back to it leaves me far from certain that I got the right one. Apologies for the misplaced air of certitude.

[Sampiro]

The one of my house shows a pickup I haven’t driven since 2003.

[squeegee]

@Qadgop the Mercotan

Google maps and Google Earth still have terrible low-res views of my area. Which is odd, as going just a few miles north and a few miles south brings one into areas with very sharp detail, and relatively up to date, too. My home must be under some clandestine government blurring program.

Don’t despair – my house was in the mighty blur zone from 2005 until just this last summer when it got some fairly hi-rez imagery, and I could at last see my neighborhood. So Google does seem to make slow progress at getting better coverage of areas.

[Quercus]

@Qadgop the Mercotan

My home must be under some clandestine government blurring program.

Probably just interference from the neutronium…