Huge update on Google Earth Netherlands Hi-res

Google Earth: Low Lands in Hi-res!

The Doors of Simulation?

Aerodata-surveys in Antwerp Belgium, released hi-resolution aerial photography of The Netherlands for Google Earth.

This is expected to boost the number of applications for the visualisation of location based simulation in and from the low lands.

Read more on the M3D Glider,at the Fresh geo-games.eu website, here.

Aerodata-surveys News release, here.

Resolutions range from 1 pixel for 40cm x 40 cm to higher. Roughly, this allows to see cars and dutch traffic in just-enough detail. One may recognise a car by color but just not the owner's model.

In other areas, the resolution is pushed to much higher detail.

Utrecht is at 1 pixel = 7 cm x 7 cm!

The Hague, 8 cm.

Assen and Houten are very high as well.

Some areas are restricted and show gargled pixels. The visual effect here, rather than making things virtually 'invisible'  is that 'hot' or restricted areas are very easy to find. Thanks to so-called visual 'blocking' policies.  For more details on sensitive locations, the malignent citizens among us and the military already gathered information for decennias. The argument of security is overrated and very well treated by Ogle Earth earlier this year.

Go and discover!

Also there was a new release of Google Earth this week, adding the TIME dimension to locations. More on this in a later blog as this is expected to become a little revolution in itself!  New functions list at Ogle Earth blog, here.

In June this year, a major upgrade from Google Earth included these new High resolution areas:

Russia, China, Africa, Taiwan, USA, Canada, Bermuda, the Caribbean Islands, many islands in the Pacific, Puerto Rico, South America, New Zealand, Australia, etc...

From Ogle Earth:June 9th.

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Google Earth has received a major dataset upgrade overnight. The entire globe is now marked with new strips of high resolution imagery, much of it in regions with low population densities. This is without a doubt the single largest high-resolution update yet, in terms of surface area.

Large desert areas in Africa are now in high resolution, including the Nile region and the entire soutwest African coastline. Many parts of Tibet, Nepal, India and Pakistan have been upgraded, including the Karakoram and the Himalayas. Large tracts of Siberia have been upgraded, as has the interior of Australia. Ditto with Mexico — especially the Baja peninsula — and much of Central America's coastlines. It's as if Google went to DigitalGlobe and said, "What's left that we don't have yet? Can we make a deal?"

Craig Stanton emailed to point out much higher resolutions in New Zealand. Google Earth Blog notes that many islands have had their imagery upgraded.

Notably, too, large parts of Israel are now in high resolution, Including the Dimona nuclear site.

High resolution imagery of remote areas is directly useful for science projects, but also for humanitarian agencies — in short, anyone who wants to do more than look at urban landscapes (interesting as they are).

The database changes have not made it to Google Maps yet. Google hasn't yet announced the update on Google Earth Community.
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