Google Map Satellite Imagery is Outdated - What to do?

[barbetsmith]

@zee_z

It’s roughly outdated by 8-10 years, one of the bridges in my town was decommissioned and destroyed back then, it’s fully gone now, but it’s still present in the map. A lot has happened since then that has dramatically altered the terrain and wilderness. Massive wild fires, mud slides, flooding, increased urbanization, so many areas on the map including entire forests and towns don’t exist right now.

Okay so, I just learned that there actually is a way to report outdated satellite imagery directly to Google. They don’t promise to do anything about it, but it might get the ball rolling. You do it by filling out this form:

https://support.google.com/maps/contact/report_outdated_imagery

Google has no general direct customer support contact, but they do make special contact forms available for certain specific types of requests - I didn’t expect this to be one of them, but there you go!