Seeing OSM tile imagery is believing, or not

Updating an industrial area near a motorway exit of Giulianova where first mapping took place in 2010. Now 15 years later the world and landuse looks in many places quite different, all that green paved and plastered over. Seeing a new plant, compared and got this (what I long know and long decided to not use but for ‘way back’ checking) ESRI Clarity, with a tile date metadata stamp of 200. The red lined area where the newish plant is.

Then when looking at regular ESRI and BING the new plant is revealed, and oh dear, the Bing tile is of 2023.

And regular ESRI, supposedly, of 2023.

And what the source says we’re not allowed to use, nothing there in 2010, or 2018, but in 2024…

Since the bulk of the area was mapped using Clarity, I’ve mapped the adds using Bing and then aligned it to Clarity, edit saved to disk and on hold for committing, else all the new stuff would be overlying roads and parkings all over the place and redoing the whole… volunteers w/ spare time are welcome. The location is on my infinite list of places to visit, when by chance passing there, and switch the helm-cam on, snap button on the handle bar for record, as that’s I truly trust (The GPX only by approximation).

Errata: Found this in ID Editor with Mapbox as background. The new plant area looks suspiciously highlighted. Did not know how to get timestamps in ID, so asked my AI friend telling it’s Ctrl+Shft+B… “vintage unknown”.

Found the region’s orthophoto website for public use recorded in 2018-2019 but no clue how to get this into JOSM, certainly more up to date than Italy PCN 2006 and 2012 which shows farmland too for the area of interest.

It is unclear to me what your concern or question is.
Therefore, I would just like to point out that it is possible to use very recent and also historical satellite photos:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Sentinel-2

Here the industrial area mentioned on January 4, 2025:

February 5, 2025:

September 2, 2023:

January 15, 2022

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Thanks for that, only confirms how outdated Clarity and few more are, this Sentinel source a most welcome add to my library. Played with it and found that for the OSM layer, certainly in that area, the map is about 6 years or older, Why it’s obvious is for one it shows a primary road as SP22a. The tagging ref was changed to SS80racc without transfering SP22a to the old_ref tag… first repair of the day. Not documented why that was since the vrs businesses there still show the SP22a as their street to find them at. The province also still lists the SP22a, suspecting the connecting section from motorway to the trunk SS80 was redesignated. It has higher than SP qualities thats clear.

Anyway, finished the mapping and uploaded. The plant has a number of open air clarifiers but could not readily find what they are doing. We see therefor they are.