On 16/08/2011 20:11, Roger Mills wrote:
On 16/08/2011 19:04, robgraham wrote:
I'm involved in a dispute for Planning Permission. Most of the
dispute revolves round aerial photos and images from Google Earth.
Can someone confirm my translation of the data on a Google Earth
picture please.

There are what I assume copyright dates in the middle of the bottom of
the image - in the case of the area I'm looking at there are 4
companies involved all with 2011 against them. If on the other hand I
zoom in to an 'Eye Level' (bottom righthand side) of less than 2000
ft, the bottom LH corner pops up with "Imagery Date: 1/1/1999". As
the image is clearly taken in a summer period, am I right in taking
that this indicates that the photo was taken in 1998 or earlier ?

Rob

I doubt it. Google Earth - as such - has only existed since about 2005,
based on a product dating back to 2001 acquired by Google.

1/1/99 sounds to me like an arbitrary date, meaning something like "a
long time ago, before we kept proper records of when images were taken".

It might be. I recently pulled all available images off for a particular
site and these were dated Jan 2000, Jan 2001, Jan 2002, May 2010. The
changes were consistent with the dates being about right. Interestingly,
the 2001/2002 resolution was a bit better than the 2010.