
Each pixel represents 60cm or just under 24 inches. As well as multi-angle images that construct a 3D model, it has a 'video staring' mode as it passes over at more than four miles per second it constantly reorients its camera to fix on a particular location, producing a two-minute, 50fps video of that location. Having launched in January 2018, UK company Earth-i's VividX2 satellite began sending back the first full-color video. Do you have a brilliant idea for the next great tech innovation? Enter our Tech Innovation for the Future competition and you could win up to £10,000!.Google Earth Engine has already made satellite imagery available for Earth scientists – is the future for Earth observation real-time video? Meanwhile, drones and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are on the cusp of being able to offer high-resolution close-ups of everything, everywhere. Or just streamed as live video of Earth shot from space? What if the famous Google Street View vehicles weren't vans, but drones?Īll of this will soon be possible, thanks to a 4K Ultra HD camera that can stream full-color video back to Earth from more than 300 miles up. You can also right-click the offending road and select Report a data problem.What if the images in Google Earth were refreshed not every fews years, but every few seconds. On the website, you can use the Edit the map feature to report misdrawn, misnamed, or even missing roads. If you find that a street doesn't match what Google Maps is showing - maybe it's got the wrong name, or doesn't have the right shape - you can report it to Google yourself. But it's largely up to them to report the changes to Google. If these third-party agencies are on top of things, new roads and street names should appear quickly. This means there's not an easy way to predict when streets and roads will be updated. When they visit cities to take pictures, the Street View team also makes note of when real life doesn't match what they have on the map. But they also accept data from local governments, housing developers, and more. These are mostly government agencies like the United States Geological Survey. Google receives data about streets and roads from a variety of sources.

But with thousands of cities across the world and even more roads, making sure everything stays up-to-date is a big job.

Google Maps is built to show you all the streets nearby and give accurate directions from one place to another.
