GoogleEarth v Whereis

Wheris pic was taken within the last 12 months. There is a block of flats being built down the road. where as google earths must have been taken over 3 years ago before I moved into this place as I can see my rusting 4runner in the pic in whereis but it is not in google

Maybe that Google Earth comes out of USA and whereis is the Aussie update?

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I just had a quick look at the Gold Coast using Whereis and it is high res unlike Toowoomba which isn't.
I found a join in the images around Broadbeach where some of the buildings (like Q1) are taken from a north perspective and the buildings next door are from a south perspective. A bit eerie to look at but it shows the time of day is similar but the angle is quite different.
I suspect that if you really look you would find many small differences in the actual date of many images taken even side by side.
I also had a look at google maps. It's images of the same area is much earlier in the day and mostly from a slightly southerly perspective (which is better for orientation). It seems a lot more seamless though.
Googlemaps and GoogleEarth of my house near Toowoomba are different times but reasonably close and the local gov't mapping is different again but newer.
Too many choices :)

Google earth is free to anyone except commercial.

The images Whereis uses would be hi def commercial data that costs them 10's of thousands of dollars to have the right to use and on sell.

Whereis makes there money out of selling there software to people like Garmin, Tomtom etc. etc. and in the end we are the ones who pay for it when we buy a GPS.....this may help keep there web site free as they don't have to recoupe there money from a web site and can afford better data.

Remember Whereis is owned by your friend and mine TELSTRA so the question is how long will there web site be free.

Whereis may have done their satellite data after Google but that only means Google will be updating their data before Whereis next time.