As pointed out by GEB reader ‘wroman”, Google has just pushed out some new imagery!

As is usually the case, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not a specific area is fresh. This new imagery isn’t in Google Maps yet, so you can compare Earth vs. Maps to see what’s new; the fresh imagery is already in Google Earth, but the old imagery is still in Google Maps. If you compare the two side-by-side and they’re not identical, that means that you’ve found a freshly updated area in Google Earth!

[UPDATED — 6-October, 7:21am EST]

• Argentina: San Miguel de Tucuman — thanks ‘Federico’
• Cameroon: Various places — thanks ‘Munden’
• China: Various areas — thanks ‘David’ and ‘maggern’
• Congo Republic: Near Lubumbashi — thanks ‘hhgygy’
• India: Mumbai — thanks ‘Munden’
• Kosovo: Northeastern areas, around Besiane — thanks ‘Edi’
• Russia: West-Smolensk and Tyumen region — thanks ‘andrew’ and ‘hhgygy’
• Serbia: Southern areas — thanks ‘Ed’
• United States: Connecticut (Waterbury), Pennsylvania (Allentown area)
• Venezuela: Various areas — thanks ‘wroman’

If you find any other updated areas, please leave a comment and let us know!

Panoramio is a community photo-sharing site for geo-located images. Photos uploaded to Panoramio show up on its website, as well as other places such as Google Earth and Google Maps.

We’re excited to announce that detailed statistics are now available to users directly within their Panoramio account. Think of Panoramio Stats as a photo-specific version of Google Analytics for Panoramio – in other words, a powerful web analytics tool that helps you measure the performance of your photos. With this new feature, you can track the sites from which your photos have been viewed in visually appealing and intuitive reports.

These statistics are available for every photographer and surface granular information about each photo. For example, a reports for the last 30 days can be broken down by referral domain so photographers can see how many times their photos were viewed within Panoramio, on Google Earth, Google Maps, and through Panoramio’s Widget API.

Additionally, Panoramio Stats helps you identify your most recently viewed and most popular photos, and lets you know about new referral sites so you can track the latest online activity around your photos and figure out what types, styles or genres of your photos generate the most interest and help you improve your craft.

As always we’d love to hear your thoughts on this cool new feature, so feel free to leave us your comments in the Panoramio Forum.

Posted by Gyuri Dorko, Software Engineer

Strit Viu

Strit Viu has been created to collect the best Street View images found in Brazil. The site allows users to submit the funny or memorable images they find in Street View and share them with the world.

You can search the submitted Street Views by location or by rank. Strit Viu also plans to add categories soon, so you will also be able search the images by tag.

Via: Street View Funny

Also See

• http://www.sampaview.com (São Paulo)
• http://www.riostreetview.com (Rio de Janeiro)
• http://www.bhnomapa.com (Belo Horizonte)

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