Google has unveiled a three decade time lapse of the earth's surface and the changes in Tauranga since 1984 are amazing to see.
The Google Earth Engine team created Timelapse which allows people to see a zoomable video of a particular area on the surface of the earth, showing clearly Tauranga's expansion in the last 32 years.
Google combined more than 5 million satellite images collected over the past three decades by five different satellites.
The website said the majority of the images came from Landsat - a joint USGS and NASA earth observation programme.
Visitors to the site could search, pan, zoom and explore Timelapse.