Google has released a video which captures how Auckland has transformed over the past 32 years.
New images released by Google's Timelapse application show how New Zealand's biggest city has evolved since 1984.
In the clip, western, southern and eastern suburbs have flourished, while parts of the North Shore and central Auckland are out of view.
Google also released a timelapse which captures how Mt Cook has changed.
Chris Herwig, Programme Manager at Google Earth Engine, said in 2013, the Google Earth Timelapse offered the most comprehensive picture of the Earth's changing surface.
Now, they have undertaken the largest update to Timelapse yet, with four additional years of imagery, petabytes of new data, and a sharper view of the Earth from 1984 to 2016.
"Leveraging the same techniques we used to improve Google Maps and Google Earth back in June, the new Timelapse reveals a sharper view of our planet, with truer colours and fewer distracting artefacts," Mr Herwig said.
"For this latest update, we had access to more images from the past, thanks to the Landsat Global Archive Consolidation Program, and fresh images from two new satellites, Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2.
"We then encoded the 33 new 3.95 terapixel global images into just over 25,000,000 overlapping multi-resolution video tiles, made interactively explorable by Carnegie Mellon CREATE Lab's Time Machine library, a technology for creating and viewing zoomable and pannable timelapses over space and time."
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