The imagery update can be seen at Google Earth by downloading the Google Earth KML file to see the new imagery marked with red rectangular. You can also subscribe to your local area updates by sign up at Google Follow your World.

Following areas in Pakistan are updated with this fresh imagery update.

Rupo Chak
Zafarwal
Badiana
Chawinda
Motra
Daskta
Wazirabad
Sambrial
Begowala
Sohdra
Dhonkal
Khanki
Mansurwali
Kot Khizri
Saroke
Kashkin
Molat
Jaba Lake
FalakSar Mountain
Palesar Pass
Mahodand Lakes
Ushu, Swat Valley
Nowshera Virkan
Jandiala Sher Khan
Warn Chak
Sheikhupura
Warburton
Mahmunwali
Mandi Faizabad
Balloki Headworks
Bhai Pheru
Changa Manga
Pattoki
Lakki Marwat
Zangi Khel
Kaka Khel
Ghazni Khel
Khairo Khel
Kot Addu
Taunsa Barrage
Bulandiwala
Nurpur
Tibbi
Jhok Ranjhewali
Kaleri
Barthi
Manzai
Duki
Maarri
Drax Thal
South Sui

Source: Imagery Update: Week of May 14th
Image Source: Image taken from & copyrights to Google Earth

This imagery update covers following areas in Sindh.

Nasarpur
Shahpur
Allah Dino Sandh
Khanpur
Tando Jam
Tando Qaiser
Tando Fazal
Haji Palio Khoso

Since Balochistan is least dense populated province therefore not much of the settlements are covered in this update. Some of the areas with settlements receiving this update are as follows:

Bagar
Nagi
Isachamak
Kandasole
Kalag
Tomalak

This update can be viewed by downloading the Google Earth KML file. You can also subscribe to Follow your world app in order to get notification of any imagery updates for your area of interests.

Source: Imagery Update: Week of January 9th
Images: Copyrights Google Earth

Also if you remember the excellently planned gardens & agriculture fields of Shank then here are the mysterious green fields of Sar-i-Parom.

One of the most important discovery through this update is the existence of three extremely different types of geological structures at mere distances of few hundred meters from each other and actually touching the boundaries of each other. As you can see in following screenshot of Kharan area, where green lands, desert and rocky mountains exist in single view point.

Apart from these updates from beautiful Balochistan, following other important areas were also updated.

Lahore and surrounding areas.
Peshawar and surrounding areas.
Chalgari
Mahmud Aulia
Sanhri
Sinjawi
Sadhoojoo
Mohammad Pur
Pano Aqil City
Baiji Purani
Sangrar
Bitri
Mamro
Mithrau
North side of Kalri Lake

You can also download the Google Earth KML file and explore the marked updated areas yourself. Also you can subscribe to Follow your world tool to get updates about areas of your interest.

Source: Imagery Update: Week of December 12th

A vast size of area in Pakistan has received satellite imagery updates. Badin District in Sindh province that recently been affected by massive floods due to Monsoon season in late summer this year receives a massive satellite imagery update.

Undiscovered Balochistan

One of the interesting part of the update is the undiscovered areas of Balochistan province. Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan in relation to area size although hosts very small amount of population as compared to other provinces. Balochistan is full of rocky mountains to sandy beaches, lakes, hiking opportunities, canals, fords, gardens and diverse extreme weather conditions from blazing hot summer to freezing cold winter. By utalizing this imagery update we share some of the undiscovered places and let you find more on own your using Google Earth.

Surfing in Ganz

Ganz is located almost at West corner of Balochistan near border of Iran. The nearest famous town is Jewani and Gwadar. Ganz beach has been recommended for surfing by surf-forecast website and many others because of its fairly consistent tides and surfing waves.

Regiwar

Regiwar is very small settlement in middle of Balochistan province. The noticeable attractions are nearby mountains that are shaped in particular way to form a pallet like structure. These mountains are part of Hingol National Park.

Gardens & agriculture fields of Shank

Shank or Bibi Shank is medium sized settlement surrounded by approximately 50 Km man-made wide stripes of gardens and agriculture fields. The amazing part is a very well organised structure of these gardens and fields. It has been so beautifully structured that from a distance aerial imagery, it looks like a pattern.

Other most prominent areas included in this update are listed below.
Badin district, DHA city, North area of Jamshoro, Mirpur Khas, Sanghriaro Lake, Sanghar town, Indus Dolphin reserves in Sindh
Khuzdar, Shank, Regiwar, Suleman Mountain range and Ganz seaside town in Balochistan.
Dera Ghazi Khan, Jampur, South side of Sahiwal, Allah Abad and Ara near Khewra.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Barram Ghali, Harianai and Biar.
Laki Marwat in Federal Administrated Tribal Areas and Hattian Bala in Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

Source: Imagery Update: Week of November 28th – Google LatLong Blog

This imagery update provides the fresh satellite imagery for Kalam Valley which is one of the most attractive place for tourists in North-East Pakistan. Also it covers the latest images for Jacobabad town, huge area of North Shikarpur, East Karachi in Sindh and Khuzdar and surrounding areas in Balochistan.

Another important feature covered by this update is the Khojak Railway Tunnel near Chaman, Balochistan. Khojak tunnel was built in 1891 at Khojak Pass. It is 3.91 Kilometers long and remains the longest tunnel in South-Asia until replaced by the 8.6 Kilometers long Lowari Tunnel, currently under construction and to be completed in 2013. The entrance of Khojak Tunnel from Quetta to Chaman bound was also featured on back side of old 5 Rupees bank note by State Bank of Pakistan.

Here in following image taken from Google Earth, we have tried to measure the length of tunnel using Google Earth measuring tool and it also tells the length of approximately 3.91 Kilometers from visible entrances of both sides.

You can also download the Google Earth KML file to see the imagery update for yourself and can subscribe at Follow Your World to track the updates in your areas of interests.

Sources:
Imagery Update: Week of October 24th
Khojak Railway Tunnel

Imagery Update – 7th September 2011

This update covered a wide area of Sindh that had recently been affected by massive floods leaving millions of people badly affected. The update includes the surroundings of Badin district as well as it also covers the neighbourhood area of Indus river from Hala and Hyderabad to Tando Muhammad Khan in Sindh province. Imageries for the areas are dated 16th and 10th February 2011, respectively. The update also provides the new imagery for southern area of Manchar Lake where the expansion of lake can be analysed using historical imagery in Google Earth. Imageries are dated to 26th and 1st May 2010.

In Balochistan, it covers the south side of Kalat and some updates for empty areas near proposed motorway M-8. In north side of Balochistan it covers the south area of Zhob town. Imageries are dated to 26th and 1st May 2010.

In Punjab, it covers the Bahawalpur city and bit of its surrounding areas. Imagery is dated to 20th April 2010.

In Federal Administered Tribal Areas(FATA), imagery covers the wide area of Datta Khel and taken on 6th April 2010.

Imagery Update – 21st September 2011

This update provides a lot more imageries than the previous one. In Sindh, it covers the huge areas of Bhorita, Dharindharo, Rawatsar and south side of Indus River Delta. It also covers the Baqi Khan, Peeral Khan Majeedano to Benazir Abad in south, although it doesn’t include the Benazir Abad town.

In Balchistan, it covers the south side of Kirthar Mountains range, Makran mountains and huge area in north side of Gwadar port town. New imagery can also be found for areas near Pakistan-Iran border, south side of Nushki and Dera Bughti mountain range.

In Punjab, update follows to south side of Sadiq Abad, Girdu, Khar, Fort Monroe, Dera Ghazi Khan to Badwani, Hasilpur, Vehari, south-east Khanewal, Mailsi, Toba Qalandar Shah, Toba Baluchan, Munianwala, Pakpattan, Haveli, Choa Saidan Shah, Salt Range, Katas, Kallar Kihar, Talagang, Pichnand, Tamman, Dhermond, Dhok Faqira, Mial, Bhagtal and Chakwal.

In Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK), Dhanwan, Chawala, Palangi, Mahmood Gali, Abbaspur, Madarpur, Sehra, Tata Pani, Seri, Khuiratta, Sarsala and Khadora endorse the new satellite imageries in single huge size capture on 13th March 2011.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kalakot, Koza Drushkhela, Chupriyal, Asharay, Barthana and Rodingaar receive the fresh imagery.

Imagery Update – 5th October 2011

The most recent update is not very large in size but it cover few prominent areas throughout the country. In Federal Administered Tribal Area, Makin and Razmak area receive the fresh imagery taken on 13th October 2010. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar city gets a huge fresh update with imagery taken on 21st March 2011. This imagery is of huge size covering the Addezai and Aza Khel in south as well.

In Balochsitan, Kanozai, Pishin, Pir Kalandar and lots of empty areas get imageries update.

In Sindh, floods affected areas keep receiving the fresh imagery updates covering Islamkot, Sinhar Nagar and their surroundings in this update.

In Punjab, lots of updates in deserts and the most important and huge size update covering the cities from Wazirabad to Qila Didar Singh, Gujranwala, Gakhar Mandi and Tatlay Aali in south. Also a huge updated area in south side of Haveli town is in this update.

You can follow the imagery updates in your area by subscribing to Follow your world tool by Google.

Following areas are covered in this satellite imagery update.

- Shar Darra Lakes, Gilgit-Baltistan
- Darbandh, Chitral
- Lotkoh, Chitral
- Hyderabad, Sindh
- North areas of Darazinda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Zhob & surrounding areas
- West area of Kot Rum, Punjab
- Jubho Lagoon Wetlands, Sindh
- Nagar Parker, Thar Parker
- Miani Hor, Sindh
- Iranian, Pakistani Border areas

You can download the KML file and open in Google Earth to see the latest update marked in red rectangular. You can also use the Follow your World tool to subscribe to satellite updates for your interested areas.

Source: Imagery Update: Week of August 29th – Google-Latlong Blog

Explore the South-West Treasure

Explore the South-West Treasure with major areas of Balochistan and Sindh province covered in this update. Only few particular towns receieve new satellite imagery but many other interesting landmarks such as mountains, lakes, forts, seaports and national parks get the new satellite imagery. It is interesting and in a way very useful that most of the areas receive satellite imageries that have been captured very recently.

Few of the areas getting new satellite imagery are:
Pasni
Ormara
Khawazkhwa & surroundings
Palangi
Forward Kahuta
Makran Coastal Line
Jamshoro
Cholistan
Thar
Balochistan Mountain range

About Mojgarh Fort

The Moj Garh fort was founded by Muhammad Maroof Khan Kehrani, in 1743 A.D. This square fort decorated with glazed tiles and surmounted by a single dome stands about 400 yards south of the fort. The fort is at a distance of 32 km from Marot Fort and at present the fort is in ruins. The outer burnt-brick facing and the interior facing of the fortification wall has collapsed at several places exposing the mud brick core. The fort is almost square in plan measuring 325, 312, and 238 feet on the southern, western and northern sides respectively. The walls are strengthened with a series of semi circular bastions.

Let us know if you find interesting features through this new imagery update.

Source: Mojgarh Fort from Localyte [http://goo.gl/2ozbo]
Source: Google Earth imagery KML

This latest satellite imagery update comes with flash backs of worst floods in history of Pakistan. As shown in this above screen-shot taken from new imagery at Google Earth, streets & roads can be seen filled up with floods water in Charsadda town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Beside this, following areas get the high resolution imagery:

- South Karachi
- Multan and long stripe of South Multan
- North & South Lahore upton Raiwand
- Charsadda and surroundings
- Indus Highway at North-East side of Sarai Naurang

Source – Google LatLong: Imagery Update: Week of July 18th
All images are taken and copyright to Google Earth.

This year party season includes three mapping parties that are going to be in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi on 7th, 9th & 10th June respectively. These mapping parties basically serve the purpose of sharing and expanding knowledge & usabilities of digital cartography for public use at Google Map Maker platform by get-together of existing active mappers and new interested mappers from around the country & diaspora. Another fun purpose of these events are to collectively map an area chosen at the event by majority of attendees.

The mapping parties are arranged by Google Map Maker Community Team & Advocates along with local support partners such as Google Pakistan, CIO Pakistan and more to come along.

One can attend as many events as they wish though they have to register for each event in time in order to attend the event however events have already been arranged in three largest cities of Pakistan to facilitate the attendees travel arrangements.

Registration is compulsory and it must be done as soon as possible since limited seating availability.

Register for Islamabad event:
http://goo.gl/P90EH

Registration for Lahore event:
http://goo.gl/41u36

Registration for Karachi event:
http://goo.gl/cMXMB

For this year season, all mapping parties are named as MapUp events and all the social updates will be available through twitter hashtag #MapUp.

Agenda:
The events are more focused on practical work with no exact agenda defined hence better be called as unconference type sessions. However, a draft agenda to go along with is as follows:

14:30 – Registration at reception.
15:00 – Welcome note by Badar Khushnood (Google Country Consultant, Pakistan).
15:15 – Mapping success stories and usage summery by Map Maker advocates.
15:45 – Product Introduction – Q&A.
16:15 – Training & Lab Mapping.
18:00 – End note, feedback, networking & refreshment.

The agenda may change according to choice of attendees and mapping location may also be selected by attendees or by organisers.

Google has covered these events in their official Google Lat-Long Blog as “A Cause to Celebrate in Pakistan with Google Map Maker“.