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The Oslo Blur

by Timothy Whitehead on May.21, 2015, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA

In September last year, soon after we first released our KML showing the areas covered by 3D imagery, GEB reader ‘bubollofo’ pointed out that there was a blurred square of imagery over Olso, Norway.

Earlier this month we noticed that the blur appeared to have been fixed. However, several readers (thank you Frank and Ryan K) have since pointed out that it has only been fixed in the recently released version of Google Earth and can still be seen in the older version. The blur is in the 3D imagery so you will need to turn on the 3D buildings layer and have the older version of Google Earth in order to see it.

Oslo with blur
Oslo as seen in Google Earth version v7.1.2.2041

Oslo without blur
Oslo as seen in Google Earth version v7.1.4.1529

We found this interesting, as we had assumed the problem was with the data and not the Google Earth client, but this finding suggests that the problem is either with the client itself or something to do with communication between the client and image server.

Do any of our readers know of any other locations that look different in the new version of Google Earth?

To find the location discussed in this post download this KML file

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