Yesterday marked the publication of high resolution aerial imagery of a large number of Spanish cities on Google Earth.

It marked the first 2008 push of aerial imagery onto Google Earth, details of the push can be seen here on Google's map blog .

The imagery of the cities was flown and processed by Aerodata International Surveys, one of Google Inc’s preferred European partners for aerial imagery content.

The project is included into Aerodata’s aeroGRID® European Cities Program, that covers many cities and some entire countries throughout Europe.

The high resolution aerial photography has a ground resolution of 15cm and covers over 3000 sq km of Spanish territory and more than 24 urban areas across the country.

You can see which cities are covered by opening this KMZ file (Google Earth required).

The aerial imagery of all of these cities is available for purchase as “raw” stereo imagery in colour (RGB) and colour-infrared (CIR) with orientation parameters and/or as tiled mosaics in in colour (RGB).

For inquiries, please contact M. Taylor of aeroGRID Limited at mat@aerogrid.net or +33 950 201305.