[Qgis-user] QuickMapServices plugin question

[Bernd Vogelgesang]

Am 12.07.19 um 09:54 schrieb Tony Shepherd (FarmMaps NZ):
>
> Hi All
>
> This isn’t really a question, but a curiosity.  I've been using Google
> Satellite among other services from the Quick Map Services plugin. 
> Its awesome and very useful to have different sources of imagery etc
> to use in addition to existing ortho photos that I have access to.  My
> question, or curiosity really, is what Google dataset the QMS plugins
> access as opposed to that used in Google Earth?  I notice that in
> Google Earth that there is some nice new imagery, not more than a
> month old, displaying in an area that I have recently been working
> in.  I assumed that the new Google imagery would filter through to the
> dataset that is accessed by the QMS plugin.  Its obviously a different
> dataset, can anybody shed any light as to if the Google Earth imagery
> does flow through to the dataset used by the plugin eventually?
>
I can report the opposite:  In my target area, there are old barracks
which have been torn down last year. In googlemaps and google earth,
they are still there, while in the google satellite layer delivered by
QuickMapServices, they are already removed!

Cheers,
Bernd


> Cheers
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> Tony
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