Here's a map of the high-resolution satellite imagery of the Philippines that's available on Google Earth as of April 2011. Areas in red have high-res coverage.
Some background-- seav made some maps like this before, but it's been a few years and I felt like seeing what the coverage looks like today.
Compare this with what the coverage looked like in June 2006 or March 2007.
Note, in Google Earth you can more clearly see which areas are available in high-resolution by clicking the historical imagery button.
The top 40 most populous cities and municipalities in the Philippines all have high-res coverage. The largest uncovered cities are poor Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija (rank 44, population 259,267), Marawi in Lanao del Sur (rank 67, population 177,391), and Valencia City in Bukidnon (rank 71, population 162,745).
Also notably lacking high-res coverage are the tourist spots of Boracay and Panglao/Tagbilaran.
Still, 54.7% of the Philippines' total land area is covered, including 65.9% on the island of Luzon. That's more than half! What a glorious age we live in.
Did you do this by manually or did you also make use of the provided update KML? :-)
ReplyDeleteI was actually looking at the update KML when I got the idea of making a map. I took screenshots from Google Earth, then traced the high-res parts in Photoshop over the Philippine map I put on Wikipedia. :p
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