New Satellite Images (Read 1017 times)

Yeah, that's on Google. Once they update their images, though, your maps should update automatically here...

I've been wondering this myself. So, since it came up here, I did a little poking around and found this:

***How often does Google update its Maps? Maps are updated as soon as we get new data from our providers. In the US, those providers are NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas, mainly. The providers vary from country to country, and you can tell who the providers are by looking in the bottom right-hand corner of your map screen, just to the left of that little zoom map. Our satellite imagery is mostly from 1 year to 3 years in age. Some of our imagery is newer, and some is older. We can't update the pictures for your location, and they're definitely not real time. ie: if you go outside and wave your arms, you won't be able to see yourself on Google Maps. =)

It's hard to find a straight answer out of NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. They both seem to claim updates happen between 3 months and 1 year, but they're in a pretty competitive field. If they're like the salespeople where I work, they'll say anything. Garmin, by the way, uses these two plus Tiger for parks and recreation. If I got this right, Tiger is public information because it was developed by the US Census Bureau using US Geological Survey data. Tiger's last major update was in 2000. This has no relevance to the question at hand. I just thought it was interesting. (Actually, nothing here really answers the question, to which it seems like there is no definitive answer.)

Can I also make a feature request so that the satellite images are live Actually, if it's cloudy, we need drone planes.

If you can arm the drone with Hellfire missiles to deal with annoying hills that I am too soft to run up, I'll even donate via PayPal.

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Google doesn't have imagery down very low/close for our area and the USGS images are VERY old...I'm guessing at least 10-20 years old based upon landmarks. I've often wondered if the age of the images has a lot to do with the population density. Seems that more urban areas have very recent images.

Definitely a function of population density -- they figure no one wants to look at satellite images of B.F.E.

I live here and I don't even want to look! The funny thing is that the rail-trail still looks like railway tracks and I don't think it's been tracks for decades. It's been paved for a VERY long time. Some of those photos I'll bet date back before my time.