[BC] Satellite photos

[Mike McCarthy]

At least two years.  We completed a TX site with a new tower in early
2007. The fence was installed in late 2007 and driveway was installed at
the end of 2008. It still shows pre-driveway early summer-2008 images
today.

So...unless you can date the actual images by knowing when any improvments
were last made or that none have been made in the past few years, I would
not relay on them for currency.

MM

> Tom Spencer wrote:
>>
>> The recent Russian incursion into Georgia had much of the Caucasus Range
>> blanked for a few weeks... I guess no-one told DoD that the Google
>> imagery is a couple of years old....
>>
>>
> Some people seem to think Google Earth images are close to real-time.
> Maybe they watch too much TV and movies.
>
> I recall that recently at the government inquiry here into our bad
> bushfires last February (Victoria, Australia) some responsible authority
> indicated they had been blind-sided regarding assessing fuel loads
> because they were using Google Earth and didn't realise that the images
> were two years out of date.
>
> --
> Peter Smerdon.
> Melbourne Australia.