[Talk-us] Google's Imagery Sources & Turnaround Time (re: USGS National Map aerial imagery)

[Anthony]

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:59 PM, David ``Smith'' <vidthekid at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> > As an aside, I wish I could find the source of the Google Maps imagery
> here
> > in Tampa.  It was either taken in 2009 or 2010, and it looks like it was
> > 2010.
>
> According to Google Earth, that imagery is from April 5 of this year!
> Now that's some fast turnaround!
>

April 2010.  Nice.  Too bad their roads aren't anywhere near that up to
date:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=27.958823,-82.540262&spn=0.006292,0.009645&t=h&z=17

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=27.95858&lon=-82.54075&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF
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