Very Unusual New Spotting - What is going on ?

Picacho Hills Country Club just west of Las Cruces, New Mexico just installed two new "red" (not blue) painted tennis courts, completing the task last week.  Both the newly painted court surfaces and the dark-green wind screen cloth attached to the chain link fence were installed about 8 to 10 days ago tops and in one day each.

To my total surprise, these new courts are visible in both "Satellite View" and high quality as photographed "Street View" already. More importantly, no other updates to the immediate scenery area are present since several nearby new houses, already framed to under roof status, show up in either view type.  They show up as vacant lots in both.  And a nearby parked white truck at a mailbox in Street View is one I knew to be present for a long time. It's still there.

Clearly a Google Earth photo taking car had to be dispatched just to Photograph this one block area in "Street View".  This begs the question, what big brother was watching them and wanted this specific data immediately ?

Check it out for yourself under...."Picacho Hills Country Club". I park in the adjacent crushed stone parking lot every single day and have watched the progress of this construction. The newly completed red tennis courts have not even been played on yet.

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This should be interesting.  Google don't normally schedule a satellite pass and send a streetview car for the opening of a new tennis court!

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Frank

What is going on? Nothing at all, except maybe some paranoia. The satellite imagery is a year old (5/2/2014). The tennis courts are virtually unchanged since 2010 (5 years) as can be seen in the historic imagery. They likely slap a new coat of paint on once a year or so.

The Google camera car did the whole neighborhood, not the small area around the courts.

I see nothing to get excited about here.


2010 View of Tennis Court.kmz (794 B)

May 9, 2015 22:42:28 GMT Gregg1956 said:

What is going on? Nothing at all, except maybe some paranoia. The satellite imagery is a year old (5/2/2014). The tennis courts are virtually unchanged since 2010 (5 years) as can be seen in the historic imagery. They likely slap a new coat of paint on once a year or so.

The Google camera car did the whole neighborhood, not the small area around the courts.

I see nothing to get excited about here.

In addition, I see that the Street View image is dated 9/2011, almost 4 years old. 

OK...  I finally get it.  I came along for the first time when those two tennis courts had already been ripped out and the concrete & everything hauled away. All there was in that location was a sand field which looked like desert.  My first exposure was seeing them then pour new pre-stressed concrete and starting over completely in that same spot. And the old lights had been hauled off to another location for storage.  I was also told that they were two new tennis courts which they actually were. Nobody said that they replaced some old ones that had been ripped out and hauled away much earlier. Since the help here in this forum I have subsequently found out that the old tennis court concrete in that location had sunken and cracked and was not repairable. So they replaced them completely with pre-stressed concrete so as not to happen again. But when I see these two brand new and just completed courts (of 6), right away on Google Earth I naturally think this is totally crazy. AND THEY ALREADY HAVE AN IDENTICAL STREET VIEW TOO.  Now it is really crazy. To add insult to injury the color was a different than the other existing ones too. And they even had a ceremony with free drinks, a fancy table, and food "christening" the new tennis courts just this past week.

I usually look at historical data but felt no need to do so....  All I saw was completely new courts being built on raw land...  SORRY !!!