Jan 23 2007
Guernsey Gets Face Lift In Google Earth
I loaded up Google Earth this morning to take a look at where Christchurch Priory is and, as usual, first took a look at Guernsey to confirm that Google still hadn’t updated the imagery for this area. To my complete astonishment Google has updated the images of Guernsey.
Although the images aren’t at a terribly good resolution, at least it is possible to see just about the whole island, rather that it being covered in cloud or cloud shadow. Unfortunately none of the roads are marked, and some of the parish/area names are in the wrong places.
After months of waiting for either Google or Digimap to supply clean images (Google won this race) I can finally start creating all the layers I have been planning.
Open mapping, it seems, is coming to Guernsey
[...] Since the recent update to Google Earths images of Guernsey I have started creating extra layers. The first of these to be released is recycling points in Guernsey. I’m not certain the recycling points are up to date but it is the best that I have been able to find so far. It currently only covers paper, steel cans, aluminium, glass and textiles but as I get better information I should be able to extend the layer with other materials. [...]
shame there are still no roads in the channel islands since they are using TeleAtlas. Navteq who they use for the USA maps have reasonably good data so Im not sure why they don’t use it.
I’ve been watch Google Earth for a year waiting for the images to be updated. I’ll probably be waiting another year before the roads get added…. or I’ll add them myself!
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