#Google earth download 2016 update#

Switch to ‘historical imagery’ and look for the aerial imagery captured in April 2011. Google Earth Client Fixed an issue where ground overlays without the tag did not render rectangles using the fill color. You can also see cleanup operations beginning (2).įor the location of the above image use this KML file, but we highly recommend exploring the whole north eastern coast of Japan. You can see an upturned boat (1) amongst the debris more than a kilometre inland. The above image was captured several weeks after the tsunami. It is well worth having another look at the devastation caused by the tsunami as the new imagery is noticeably higher quality than what has been available until now. However, the older imagery had not yet been pushed into ‘historical imagery’ at that time so it was inaccessible. The imagery was added together with some aerial imagery from February 2016 as we mentioned in this post last week on the fifth anniversary of the tsunami. Google has added a large quantity of aerial imagery of Japan captured not long after the 2011 tsunami.

#Google earth download 2016 update#

The most interesting imagery we have found so far in this update is actually not recent imagery at all. However, they are poor quality and we have not yet been able to identify any damage caused by the cyclone. There are several images in Google Earth captured a few days later. More tools will be available for business planners and marketers with the paid version anyway. Click the link named Google Earth or Google Earth Pro, but the latter comes with a cost.

To spot the actual imagery switch to historical imagery when looking at one of the regions highlighted then switch back and forth between the most recent image and previous images and you will be able to see which images are new.Ĭyclone Winston struck the islands of Fiji in the Pacific on February 20th, 2016. Just visit the Google Earth website to download the app for free. It has been created using the Google Earth plugin and the outlines are only approximate. To find the imagery in Google Earth download this KML file. Imagery in Google Earth dated January 2016. Imagery in Google Earth dated February 2016. Even now, we can only map out imagery by date, which means we can be sure that all February imagery is new and we can tell roughly how much January imagery is new by comparing with the map we made in January, but we do not know how much older imagery has been added. But other than a few images we came across by chance we did not know how extensive the update was. We have been aware of new imagery being in the default layer ever since Super Bowl 50, when Google added an image of the stadium captured on 1st February. Google has finally pushed the most recently published imagery into the historical imagery layer, so we can find and map out the imagery.