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Google June Imagery Update and Improving Google's Wrong Base Imagery
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on Tuesday June 09, @11:35AM
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from the what-does-high-resolution-mean-nowadays? dept.
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Google offers a new salve of imagery updates for Google Earth and Maps. However, not everyone is happy, from the GEB: "What I've noticed so far doesn't make me too happy. Google for a while now (see New color imagery for Australia December 2008) has been re-colorizing imagery to make the Earth look more consistent from space (instead of all the different colored strips of satellite imagery). This time, I think they've gone too far. The western US has been re-colored and is too dark and too green in some places."
The same blog also runs an entry named "Improving Google Earth Base Imagery": "Today, I'd like to make a case that Google is going down the wrong path with their base imagery. Albeit with the best of intentions."
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The GEB informs us on the latest Google's imagery update and improving coastlines resolution but with some potentially undesired impacts (see below), expect an official announcement soon. Meanwhile, there are also new bridges in Google Earth.
From the GEB entry: "First, I'm very pleased because Google has removed some of the bad coloration they introduced to the southwestern US imagery back in early June. [...] Second, Google has introduced a new "coastline-cutting" tool to make the edges of the imagery conform to the shape of the coastlines. This is a pretty significant move as it effects imagery all over the planet. [...] However, imagery of the areas of ports, bays, harbors, shallow waters (especially in the Bahamas), etc. have now been cut out in favor of the bathymetry. The base level imagery of Google Earth (and Google Maps after this update migrates there), will now have lost some very valuable information. The former technique formerly showed ships, aircraft flying in the area, water conditions, sub-sea surface conditions (shipwrecks, coral reefs, sea life, oil rigs, buoys, dive sites, and (very importantly to the boating world) anchorage sites."
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