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Today, i read through the google earth blog. i found out that google earth recently uploading a huge amount of satellite image and updating their database. This means new high resolution data for all of Germany, many places in Europe, the new 3″/pixel data for Las Vegas. when you zoom to lowest level map, you will see a the Earth’s land masses will look more green because Google is now using a dataset from a company called TrueEarth.

Here are some blog entries with details on the changes:

• Big update 23-Mar-2006 - TrueEarth update, Germany, tropical islands, and more.
• Maldive Island group - beautiful hi-res islands - see in Google Maps
• Las Vegas, Nevada - 3 inch/pixel data - see in Google Maps
• Stonehenge - now in high-resolution - see in Google Maps
• Big update 18-Apr-2006 - Most of western Europe gets updated.