Well, no updates to my hometown. Still a green blur. I guess Stone Henge is more important than the beautiful, bucolic Athens, Ohio? Puhleaze.

When is SE Wisconsin (Milwaukee) going to get some decent resolution. Currently it completely sucks. Terraserver, even in the non-subscribe mode, provides better resolution.

What happend to 3d buildings, I thought at one point google would allow users to view buildings in a 3d aspect. Othewrise what is the point of tilting up and down?

Eugene, you can see the 3D buildings in Google Earth for 38 major metropolitan areas in the US. You just need to turn on the "Buildings" layer. Even Las Vegas has a few buildings done, but not the more architecturally interesting casinos so far.

There are a lot of stories about 3D buildings here:

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=buildings

Yeah, same for us in northeastern Ky. New photos, but same, poor resolution. Yahoo maps is much, much better, check out the comparison:

http://www.houseofboyd.com/?p=344

The rural areas of eastern North Carolina need better pictures.

Yeah, I noticed the "update" last week. I used to have great resolution in my neighborhood - Hartford, WI and now it's terrible.

Back before Google bought keyhole, the maps for Milwaukee were great. As far as I can see, the quality of maps is getting WORSE, not better.

to be technically correct, satellite photography is not used in google earth. the only current satellite system of appropriate resolution is russia's spin-2 which is not included in the google dataset. the rest of the space-based data is "imagery" not "photography."

nothing for maine in the usa still. looks like i still wont be using gearth sorry

Yeah, SE Wisconsin never shows up. Our resolution sucks? Is Milwaukee hell, or are we just non-existant? Please refer to the Drew Carey show for more details.

I love using Google Earth, especially when it comes to determining directions from one point to another.

I don't understand Google's pursuit of Maps. I think Google Earth is widely used and that should be their focus when it comes to navigation.

I get really good detail on my town! You can see everything down to the cars in my driveway!

Yah, despite the great resolution that some of the more popular and heavily populated areas can be seen with, I'm still wondering when all those people from out in the middle of nowhere such as myself will get a chance to see our own house's too. I'm not particularly a big fan of looking at a giant green blob that's supposedly supposed to be my hometown and can only be viewed somewhat clearly at an altitude of 20,000 feet. Though some of the thing's you'll find on Google Earth are still quite amusing. I found one area that you can see 3 completely different seasons that only encompases a few square miles!

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/6067/image18ku.jpg

How about a good closeup of Yermo, CA? Part of the movie "The Incredible Hulk" was filmed there and You can't identify the local streets there, Also in Lenwood, CA there is a short Dirt road named Knight Rd(Realtor) or Knight Ct.(SW Gas) that is seen and not labeled(It's south of 3rd st and east of Paris Ave and west of the Church parking lot).

I sure hope we get more detail for Guam and Philippines. There is a lot of Golf courses I would like to study in these places.

Any chance you could cover more than a tiny bit of Ireland considering your European HQ is here?

Microsoft Local Live goes right down to local side-street level in my little town.

cory: Sounds a lot like another Athens-- specifically, the one in Georgia, which only has ridiculously low-res imagery on Google.

Interestingly, maps.ask.com and the Yahoo Maps beta have much better imagery of Athens, Georgia than Google... but their aerial photos of Macon, my previous home, are seriously out of date compared to Google's.

hey google earth people.. u guys rock!!! my class is using ur program for a project... but can u guys update on GUAM.. please... cuz on the version we are using now.. its only a blob of green land.. please and thank you.. oh and also the Philippines... =]

This is so neat! Can you update the info on the Outerbanks, NC. It is old views as places like the Cabana East Motel that was next to Shore Leave, is no longer there. Still trying to find out about The Wharf. Thanks.

I like Google Earth very much and watch it whenever I got time for it. I hope you will continue to make it larger and larger, because I find it such an atractive site.
Yours Truly,
Dennis.

I love google earh because it gives a great view of da wrld....although I hope U can update the Philippines (spclly Paniqui, Tarlac)...there are alot of blurry places I hope U guys can update it ASAP....thnkxz :-)

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Does anyone know why the low elevation images in Google Maps are more detailed than most of low elevation images in Google Earth?

Right now, I believe the Google Maps and Earth databases for imagery are the same. There are times when the two are out of synch when they do a big update, or when they have done very small updates. But, this usually only lasts a few days.

Google Earth also lets you zoom down to a lower elevation than Google Maps, so it is usually Google Earth that appears to have higher resolution. This really is just a limitation in Google Maps zoom levels, the imagery is the same.

Can you give the coordinates for an example of what you are talking about?

I was now 2 times in Shimla / Himachal Pradesh / India. Its a very nice hilltown on the foots of Himalaya. I saw on GoogleEarth only the west part of Shimla. This part is not so interesting. I hope 'they' will update the east part of Shimla soon.... S.P. Germany Apr. 2007

Who doesn't like that Google maps shot of Vegas? If you can't be there, G-maps is the best thing I've found so far!

How often are the images in Google Earth updated?

Maps for TR7 updated & now at least 5 years older. Why