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Our allotments have finally arrived on Goggle Maps up to now there has only been a green field.

Great!!

Ours are at the bottom. Used to have 2 until age interfered.

so have we, it's up to date to about june last year ;D

Same here, saw the google car a couple of weeks ago in Godalming doing the street view, so checked on google earth, and the whole area is now updated, but no street view yet.

I have done a small adajustment to my profile, so if you now zoom in to the location image, it will take you to my exact plot.

I think our is earlier than June there are a number of white stripes on my allotment where I put fleece over my cougette plants.  I am sure it came off well before June.  Also a lot of our allotments are very brown and I am sure by June they were greening up so I think ours are mid May.

Mine is also currently correct, but I think I will reposition it a further away after a while.

Quote from: Digeroo on February 10, 2010, 19:13:10
I think our is earlier than June there are a number of white stripes on my allotment where I put fleece over my cougette plants.  I am sure it came off well before June.  Also a lot of our allotments are very brown and I am sure by June they were greening up so I think ours are mid May.

If you use google earth, the date is at the bottom of the screen

We can pinpoint our aerial view to the last 10 days of September 2007.  This is because we put the polytunnel up on 22nd September, and it's there with the plot partially cleared, but at the house we had a new drive put in, and they started work on 1st October.

We had the car round here last year, and they were going to upload street view in the summer 2009, but they haven't yet.  But my cousin's place in deepest Tuscany is now on street view.  But the satellite shot of her house is still at least five years old! But the date at the bottom of the screen is 2009 - NOT!

QuoteIf you use google earth, the date is at the bottom of the screen

The date says 2010.  But it is definitely May 2009.

The date isn't the date the photo was taken. Not sure what it is - probably when the site was updated. If I look at my house it tells me that it's post-extension, but the photo shows pre-extension. And the same with the allotments - I know which plots were cultivated & what date, but their dates claim something different.

The Google we're all using is a free version, don't forget. How much detail can the Pentagon, MI6, the Chinese government, or even your local civic centre, police or - thankfully - ambulance & fire brigade get on the fully professional version?

QuoteI know which plots were cultivated

Looks like your site was originally larger, pity the whole area can't be returned to allotments. 

You are lucky, the image of our area is at least 8 years out of date. It has not changed since we got the Interthingy.

Quote from: Digeroo on February 10, 2010, 20:04:00

QuoteIf you use google earth, the date is at the bottom of the screen

The date says 2010.  But it is definitely May 2009.

I think you are reading the wrong date, there is a copyright date of 2010, but right at the bottom on the left there is a bit that says Imagery Date: where my date is May 24, 2009.

Yea, just checked at your location, date is 30th May 2009

Quote from: Trevor_D on February 10, 2010, 20:17:01
get on the fully professional version?

There is no change in the data you get more development tools IIRC. I could go into the problems of managing such huge data sets, which would be multiplied in size massively if you want detailed photos. Now think of how many lotties we could have for the price of one government IT project overrun!

OC

Quote from: conthehill on February 11, 2010, 01:26:17

Quote from: Digeroo on February 10, 2010, 20:04:00

QuoteIf you use google earth, the date is at the bottom of the screen

The date says 2010.  But it is definitely May 2009.

I think you are reading the wrong date, there is a copyright date of 2010, but right at the bottom on the left there is a bit that says Imagery Date: where my date is May 24, 2009.

Yea, just checked at your location, date is 30th May 2009

I think that must be the date of uploading the imagery.  The date shown for our allotment is 26th April.  By looking at the image of our plot there is no way it could be then.  The plot had been cleared and raised beds had been built with stuff starting to grow in them.  We had several of piles of paving slabs, which would be visible, as they were large.  The plot next to us shows up as covered in grass, it was an unworked plot which was completely rotavated over Easter, which was at the end of March that year.  So that would show as brown, not green.

I'm sure they don't upload the images the same day they are taken.

Quote from: asbean on February 11, 2010, 09:42:51

I'm sure they don't upload the images the same day they are taken.

I would not imagine that Google is flying its own photography, unlike streetview, since specialist companies already provide that service. It is probably procured subsequently as an added value to the Copyright owner.

I recall some councils have their area flown every few years as it can take a considerable change before OS maps are updated. They can now retrieve some of the cost by selling the photos to Google/Microsoft, etc.

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The image of our allotment site is older on google maps than it is on google earth. On google earth my car is parked near my allotment and you can just see a red spot where I am working on my allotment and everything is green looks like spring. On Google Map my car is parked on our drive and it is quite obviously the very hot summer we had as the lawns are brown and I have no shed on my allotment at that point.

You need thre status bar displayed - check it in the view menu - mine was off so I couldn't see the imagery date either.  Thanks conthehill.

QuoteYou need thre status bar displayed

I have my status bar but cannot see the date.  Though my system is a bit bossy and there is a security warning on the status bar when I display google maps.

Like Kea I think that the date listed is after the actual date of the photo.  I think that the 30th May is rather late.  I thought I had taken off the fleecing when I got back from hols two weeks earlier.

Not google maps, google earth.

Quote from: Digeroo on February 11, 2010, 12:10:02

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Like Kea I think that the date listed is after the actual date of the photo.  I think that the 30th May is rather late.  I thought I had taken off the fleecing when I got back from hols two weeks earlier.

South London shows a date of 5th March 2006 but some areas have cricket pitches and some football pitches in use. So treat them as guide dates as to when the photography was taken but sections within it may be flown at different times.

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