New Imagery in Google Earth 17th December ’07
Monday, 17th December 2007 by James Turnbull
A last minute imagery update of the year has appeared in Google Earth.
By my count the eighth update this year, Google have continued the recent trend of announcing the update with a scavenger hunt. Read the Latlong blog for the full hunt or try the comments on Gearth Blog for more direct instructions.
Get suggesting!
View Placemark (51.738085,-9.970093)
Someone’s been spinning spiders’ webs on the sea. But that’s fairly old.
In the new imagery, not yet on Google Maps, there’s
View Placemark (55.239693,-6.333361)
Which is Carrick-a-Reed, a famous island connected to Ireland by a rope bridge originally built a very long time ago.
Not directly related… But Tunisia has been updated, I went there last spring and I was disapointed that Google Maps didn’t provide hi-res of this country.
Some interesting places: Star Wars film location
Tunis, Medina
Matmata, Troglodyte houses and Star Wars film location
Snowdon View Placemark (53.0686,-4.07426) and a small area to the south of it are now in high res for no very obvious reason
One of the not so good updates unfortunatly.. many of the new strips in Wales, Scotland and Ireland are dark and poor quality.