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How often are Google Earth Satellite images updated?

Newness is no Virtue. Cache of old Google Maps satellite images?

  • Google Maps / satellite view used to provide a wonderful shot of our historic family homestead. Sadly, the New and Improved Updated 2013 satellite photo is one big glare-y blur. An easy way to find the old shot? The title pretty much says it all. Typing in the address of our family farm used to produce a brilliant satellite shot of our beloved homestead - amazing clarity and detail, vibrant colors. Brought a tear to the sentimental eye. Stupidly, I never captured the image. Today I looked it up and was dismayed at the new photo. It's distorted, washed out, and blurry. I can't even tell what I'm looking at. Is there a way to find the older image? A quick search suggests that I can try to find the property on historical aerial archive sites, but I was hoping for a simple Google cache of its own images... or something along those lines. Thanks!

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    In google earth there's a button that lets you look at historical photos of an area. Go to the toolbar, and click the 7th button from the left that looks like a clock with an arrow around it. Maybe if you go back a couple months you'll find the better image?

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Try Bing, as well. For my house, it's a different image than Google's.

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