When Will Google Earth Update My Area

Here at Google Globe Blog we get a few questions almost every day through our contact class. We encourage yous to apply if information technology you ever have a question about any aspect of Google Earth. With the fresh imagery released yesterday, a lot of y'all are wondering when yourcity will be updated. We'll answer that and some other questions below:

Do you have imagery for August 15, 2011 at three:50pm? My house/car/business organization was cleaved into and we want to catch the thieves.

Sadly, this is incredibly unlikely. Considering of the way that Google Earth imagery works, any given expanse is typically only updated once every few years. The odds that they captured imagery at the precise moment you need it, forth with the the odds of the imagery actually capturing a detail that helps with the investigation, are very remote.

The imagery in my city is 3 years old. When will it exist updated again?

The short reply is that we have no thought, equally Google doesn't release that kind of information alee of time. We recommend that you lot sign up to be notified when new imagery is released in your expanse, and be certain to keep an heart on the "historical imagery" as information technology's sometimes newer than the base imagery.

How can I get a alive streaming view of Google Globe?

In short, you can't. Despite what you see in movies like "Men in Black", the authorities tin't either. While it seems likely that nosotros'll have a live-streaming Google World in the coming decades, the technology just isn't there nonetheless. Not just would you need thousands of additional satellites capturing imagery (and the corresponding servers on the basis to process information technology in real-time), but there are also images with daylight, weather, angles, etc. Beyond that, I'm sure we'll come across problems with privacy begin to arise also.

We again refer you lot to the "well-nigh Google Globe imagery" post to see how complex it is to add imagery to Google Earth. Having to cover all 57.5 million square miles of world in existent-fourth dimension volition be quite a challenge, simply one that I know engineers are looking forward to tackling.

Exist sure to check out the full basics section for more answers, don't hesitate to ask if you accept other questions.

Nearly Mickey Mellen

Mickey has been using Google Earth since it was released in 2005, and has created a diverseness of geo-related sites including Google World Hacks. He runs a spider web design firm in Marietta, GA, where he lives with his wife and two kids.