I just noticed that Google Maps is now using older images than they used to - the one of our house is at least 4, possible 6 years old... It used to have a photo that was only 3 years old or so until recently.
I seem to remember a (free) website that used much newer images, but cannot remember which one...
Any pointers will be much appreciated.
TIA.
In message , JoeJoe writes
Some maybe, ours seems to be a newer one, the previous one seemed fairly old (before our time here anyway)
Not necessarily newer, but sometimes different - the MS version which used to be local.live.com (now
my area - our extension is finished (completed 3 years ago), but the fence around it is not there yet (done 2 years ago).
have a red car in the drive - which makes the date of the photo ... crikey! earlier than Mar 2002.
Above coment was referring to Aerial image, not the satelite one which is identical to the Google Maps one.
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Thanks for the URL - it gave me a much sought after view of an established hedge which had been ripped out by a local farmer and he was denying it had ever existed when I complained to our trees and landscape officer.
Multimap.com and 192.com both have aerial images.
For our area 192.com has by far the best quality, the oldest and worst is used by Multimap, viaMichelin and Microsoft Live Maps aka Bing Maps.
As for newest - it's hard to tell between 192.com and google.com.
newer, higher resolution images. And in my opinion the 'bird's eye' view is oblique and the original images are 'bird's eye'.
Have you clicked on the 'clock' at the top of the image? This shows 'historical' images. If you have (accidentally) clicked on it previously, try clicking again to revert to the latest.
IIRC the aerial images were licensed from the GetMapping project - which ought to be a bit newer. Alas they don't seem to have full coverage with the "birds eye" images.
Which is curious - from one aspect we can see our Air-Con mounted to the side of the house, from another angle it's been repositioned at ground level. So I'm guessing it's pretty random how old each frame is
In message , Peter Johnson writes
The bird's eye (oblique) view of our house is older than the aerial photo.
Sorry - don't understand what you mean by "clock"...
there's an icon above the picture in google earth about an inch from the left that looks like an analogue clock face. This toggles 'historic images' between the latest and a previous version.
Goggle Maps =/= Google Earth.
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