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Google has continued to roll out 3D imagery, with over 50 new or updated areas so far in July. In addition, we saw indications that Google is interested in getting 3D imagery for Indian cities.

Picturesque Lübeck, Germany, one of over 50 new areas of 3D this month.

We have seen quite a lot of satellite and aerial imagery added this month, but Google has not updated any of its ‘imagery update’ maps, nor the new ‘Satellite imagery updates’ layer in Google Earth. We had a look at some interesting finds in the new imagery and thank you to GEB readers for pointing out some further locations in the comments of that post.

On the 29th of June, in celebration of Google Earth’s 10th anniversary, Google added some new layers to Google Earth under the heading ‘Voyager’. This month we did a series of posts looking at these new layers. We also suggested adding a layer marking interesting sights to be found in Google Earth imagery.

We showed you how to animate historical imagery by using Google Earth Tours. There is a lot of room for improvement and suggestions are welcome.

This month NASA’s New Horizons mission did a Pluto fly-by and we had a look at the new imagery of Pluto in Google Earth before and after the flyby.

We had a go at getting Landsat 8 imagery into Google Earth. Thank you to Geosage for providing some useful extra tips in the comments.

We made a JavaScript converter to convert from Google Maps Street View URLs to Google Earth Street View KMLs. Thank you to GEB reader LeRoy for letting us know that it wasn’t working in Internet Explorer. We have fixed the problem and it should now work in all modern browsers.

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