Google Earth

[tyke bhoy]

Brandy wrote: I wonder when(if at all)there launching the street view for the UK?? I think they are still wading through the 'uman rights legislation on privacy of people who appear. Last I heard is they would blur the face and number plate of anyone who complained but that doesn't cover those that don't know to complain i.e. don't have GE or aren't prepared to backtrack every location they've been for several years on GE. Unlikely you would not notice your own photo been taken as the car that takes them has Google written all over it and the camera looks like a stripped down dalek on the roof. PS I don't think that the aerial view of Wakefield has been updated since the start of Google Earth, which adds to that patchworked timewarp theory. Also much of Northern Ireland plus more remote places of England, Wales and Scotland are, and always have been, very low resolution.

[Cardiarms]

the google car was driving up York Road on Friday.

[simong]

I read somewhere that they are trying to improve the rate of refresh but they're restricted by their suppliers - satellites don't take photographs continuously in orbit as they have quite limited storage and can only send back pictures when they're in range of their base station, so areas are scheduled along with other factors such as clear sight (so little or no cloud) and bright sunlight to pick out detail (which makes doing Yorkshire all the more difficult). It's probably not that surprising that Google buy a lot of their base imagery from the Russian Federal Space Agency. My house was updated earlier this year as I can see my current car outside, but before that, it was the previous owner's car, and I've been there for five years.

[minksymoo]

I used to use Google Earth for Bradford when I was teaching 3 years ago and the pics were about 2 years out of date at the time- suggesting some areas are now 5-6 years out of date.One of the kids found his house and his Nan standing on the driveway waving his Mum's car goodbye- and she'd died in 2005!

[Cardiarms]

Was looking at Woodhall lane and scrolled over to the west along Gain Lane where a carpark mysteriously blurs into a field.

[Si]

Cardiarms wrote: Was looking at Woodhall lane and scrolled over to the west along Gain Lane where a carpark mysteriously blurs into a field. Yes, I noticed that! Also strange, is the field immediately to the north east. It's filled with the world's biggest ghostly orbs! Either that, or there's been a lot of tethered animals in there.Anyone got any other ideas?

[tyke bhoy]

Cardiarms wrote: Was looking at Woodhall lane and scrolled over to the west along Gain Lane where a carpark mysteriously blurs into a field. <http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en ... c=addr>Its the patchwork quilt around Leeds. Presumably Leeds is circa 2 years old and Bradford 5 hence car park/field

[minksymoo]

"Its the patchwork quilt around Leeds. Presumably Leeds is circa 2 years old and Bradford 5 hence car park/field "I just had a look at where I lived 5 years ago and the housing estate that was built on Bradford Road just before Doctor Lane in Idle is just a cleared building site- making it at least 6 if not even 7 years old.When I moved onto Ley Fleaks Road in Idle in 2004 that housing estate was already about 2 years old and would have taken at least a year or maybe two to build.Poor old Bradders.....always a good few steps behind Leeds!

[minksymoo]

....aaaaand, where I now work in the Bexley Wing of Jimmy's is shown underconstruction. It was only finished at the end of 2007 so I reckon you're spot on. Leeds satellite images a year or so old, Bradders about 6 years old.

[Mork of Ork]

I reckon Leeds must be about 2 1/2 to 3 years out of date. My old car is parked outside the house and I've had my current car since July 2006.