Sites like Google Maps, only current?

The maps on Google are great, but they don’t seem to be updated very often. (And why would they? Things usually don’t change that much!) But after a disaster like the recent hurricanes, it would be nice to see current images. Like, what does the Condado area of San Juan, Puerto Rico look like now?

Are there sites that have maps like Google’s, only with images a few days old instead of a few years old?

NOAA has a page with relatively current aerial photography of areas affected by storms. They made flights over Houston every 12 hours. The coverage is pretty limited, but it’s probably the closest to what you are looking for.

TerraServer has a good collection of maps. It’s more up to date than Google, but nothing approaching days old. It looks like the most recent Puerto Rico images are from May.

For more recent photos in urban areas, Nearmap is good:

They have a special collection of recent post-hurricane images, but also they just regularly fly over cities a lot more often than Google does.

Free trial gets you a few images, or you can pay for their service after the trial.

NOAH doesn’t have anything for Maria. Images from Irma are the latest. Even if TerraServer had new images, you can’t zoom in enough on them.

I have this ‘thing’ about signing up for free trials.

Wait a few years and Google’ll probably buy 'em up.

Spamgourmet could help with that:

It’s been around for a long time and I’ve used it to great effect multiple times.

A few years ago investigated (near) real time satellite photos. I discovered two things - it wasn’t free and cloud free photos were not all that commonly available. Especially after big storms.

Here is a WaPo article with some recent aerial shots.

NOAA has posted some aerial imagery from PR post-Maria.

Looks like our accommodations there suffered little or no damage. Pool’s a little dirty, though.

Thanks.