Google finally add full high-res satellite imagery for UK Birmingham is well out of date (Bullring not built yet) but then Birmingham will always be out of date.
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
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Pete Ashton
No, Google is out of date!
Sorry, “photos of Birmingham will always be out of date”. Everytime I go into town there’s something new there!
The current set appear to be from between 14 June 2001 and sometime in early August. We’re working on it :)
head tech at work though that it would have been 2001 by the progress on the M62 around manchester – & may/june from the presence of a marque in Cambridge.
The sun position & quality of light looks consistant between tod & cambridge – so although this is hardy a good basis to apply ‘certainties’ I suspect that these are the same sort of set…