New Data Update in Google Earth!

It's now official! Google released new satellite/aerial photo data for Google Earth on Thursday evening. Here's a summary of the updates found so far:

This new data is not in Google Local/Maps yet. - But, Google says it will be later.

The basemap for the whole Earth has been changed to another source called TrueEarth. This new data looks better than the old one. Look at all the continents more closely. The colors are much more vibrant and green. (Read one of the comments below which explains more about the TrueEarth data)

Most of Germany is now in high resolution

Some minor fixes to old data

It also appears many Tropical Islands are in higher resolution than before, this includes French Polynesia, some in the Caribbean and the Azores.

Even many of the Atolls in the Pacific Islands around French Polynesia are much sharper.

The beautiful shallow turquoise waters around the Bahamas have been put back

More of the islands in the Caribbean are in higher resolution (previously just fuzzy blotches) - e.g. some of the Grenadines.