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On 23 Sep 2007, at 11:48, (Ted Harding) wrote:
It's some weeks since I last had a look around using Google Maps, and I did it again last night (with both Earth and Maps). It seems to me that the terrain images used have degraded.
1: They seem to be fuzzier, and with less vivid colour, at the larger zoom levels
2: I'm sure they are older
The image above our house has been updated recently (in the last 4 years or so) as it now shows a blue car outside as the previous images were showing a red car. The older images were better quality as well.
On the TV it was said that the closer high res images were taken by normal aerial photography rather than a satellite image as the available satellite images didn't has that level of resolution, but what gets me is that similar quality images are shown for some parts of the world where a plane is likely to get shot at for taking pictures...
John