On 17/08/2011 14:20, Man at B&Q wrote:
On Aug 17, 10:00 am, John wrote:
On 17/08/2011 08:29, robgraham wrote:









On Aug 16, 11:33 pm, John 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 ?

Its probably a fair bet. Google earth would not have existed then, but
their source data predates them. However how fine grained the
attributions are is hard to say since they blend together many sources
of imagery.

What are you trying to prove?
The current owner is claiming the picture is 2009 and proves
continuous use since the business on the site collapsed in 1994. It's
more a case of proving he's a lying toad than what is in the picture.

Many thanks everyone for your input - the history information is
useful if it comes to a legal scrap.

On their help page, it says:

About Imagery Dates

Google Earth displays the approximate date of displayed imagery in the
status bar at the bottom in the 3D viewer. As you mouse over a location,
this information depicts the date of the imagery. Note that this date is
only approximate.

It might be worth looking at what datawww.getmapping.comhave on the
area. IIRC they assembled all their images by overflying the country in
strips, and at known dates and times.

For my postcode thay have 1940-47, 1999-date and 2004-date but no
exact date is given. The only copyright notice I can see is 2010 in
all cases. The 1999-date is nearer 1999 than today and is almost
certainly the millenium map data.

Google earth also has a history option...

Do a "View- Historical Imagery" and you get a new entry just below the
scale indicator on the bottom left that lets you switch to older images.

I had a play with this on some test properties where I knew when stuff
had been changed. The older 1999 data looked plausible for the age. The
stuff that claimed to be 2006 I know was actually showing something from
mid 2008


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Cheers,

John.

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