#Google maps satellite view gone 2017 update#

I thought the point of Google maps was to provide an image that was of interest to the general public. Surely there are specialist applications that cater for surveyors and geologists and those that require 'pure' images? Has anyone noticed this at other airports? If this is a copywrite or trademark issue, why don't they just blur the titles? Why photoshop them out all together? It is really disappointing, as these aerial maps really tell a story that other pictures can't.

and you can see half of a Southwest 737 cut off by picture overlay. I also wondered if they were in the process of doing this at SEA as well, as the entire south half of the airport is empty. I thought maybe they pieced shots together at a quiet time, when they might have clearance to fly low over the airport, but if you look at Concourse G, you can see shadows under some of the jetways, and not under others, suggesting that jetway is at a plane, and it was taken out of the image. There are a few taxiing, but if you click on Globe, those disappear too. The other day though, I noticed, it doesn't look like they have updated maps since the last time I looked, construction seems to be at the same stage, but all the planes at the airport are gone.

#Google maps satellite view gone 2017 update#

I have been watching the progress of construction at SFO on Google Maps, and while I know they don't update maps very often, they have a couple times since construction of Terminal 1 started.