Google Maps Updated
Today Google quietly updated its map service to add high-resolution aerial photography for much more of the globe than the previous limited coverage of North America. New additions include Scotland, Iceland, Kuwait and many, many more.
Here at Google Sightseeing we’ll be featuring new sights from all these countries and will be accepting submission of the cool things that our readers find. If you find somewhere cool please make sure to read our FAQ about getting the correct web address and make sure to include the city and country for your location on our submissions form.
Okay. This one I KNOW I’ve got right
The Eiffel Tower
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Now THIS is a Crater!
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The Rock of Gibraltar
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Twombly i couldn’t agree more. Just when i was only looking at google sightseeing once a day to see what others have come up with now i’m going to hav eto look many times a day here along with finding my own again. THANKS ALOT GOOGLE!
Someone posted the Aral sea above. in the middle of it is an island (Vozrozhdeniye Island for those who are interested) that has a soviet biological weopans centre built on. heres a pic of:
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In a recent TV program they visited it and there used test-tubes and gas masks laying all over the floor… Its was very strange to sea.
Marty…that is the Richat structure…not really a crater…..
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=9319
Alex, James… You guys thought you were going to get flooded with submissions before just from North America… now what are you going to do?
Govinator, we have no idea! We’re incredibly excited about the whole thing though, and we’re going to have **so** much fun finding places for all you guys!
I should get on with it really, but I’m currently having **way** too much fun finding places for myself!
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St Amdrews Golf Links. Scotland. Not hi-res yet.
To continue on the volcanoes theme, here’s a huge one south of Tokyo. I have no idea which one it is.
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Please don your protective gear before viewing this hi-res oil well fire, Kuwait:
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There’ll be blue birds over
The white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see.
There’ll be joy and laughter
And peace ever after,
Tomorrow
When the world is free,
The shepherd will count his sheep
The valleys will bloom again,
And Jimmy will go to sleep
In his own little room again,
There’ll be blue birds over
The white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow
Just you wait and see.
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noknok, those were in Iraq, not Kuwait
Another type of Pyramid.This on looks different
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Parts of Belgium are up as well.
Hmm.. well, do us that subscribe to keyhole (google earth) get our money back?
That’d be the step pyramid. Rather well known, I believe.
OK… this is a bit off topic, but does anyone know what this is? Other than the obvious (a spiral road on a hill).
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Hey - here is Bermuda-Island
Nearly everybody has a pool …
Great view.
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Parts of Ireland are covered as well
here’s central Cork city on the south coast
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Comment for Scott regarding spiral road on a hill. Did some looking around and it looks like it is a place called Memorial Hill in Midway, Utah. Google it and you’ll find some pics of events that take place annually on top of the hill. Other than that, it’s pretty non-descript, just some hill with a neat pattern from above.
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I love it !!!
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another black hole ? any ideas ?
Patrick Weber: Yes, the shots are old, the Swiss Re (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=london,+uk&ll=51.514764,-0.080273&spn=0.006126,0.006942&t=k) or More London (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=london,+uk&ll=51.504582,-0.078846&spn=0.006126,0.006942&t=k) look like in construction.
American A-10 Warthog tank killers and a C-130 Hercules aircraft at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
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Cool Patrick. Look a little south and there are some Apache Attack Helicopters i think. Along with some Chinook Heavy Lift Helicopters
There is also a C-141 Starlifter on the taxiway getting ready to take off…..scroll around and there are some incredibly rugged and mountainous areas in Afghanisan….Osama been hidin’.
I think I may have found the first case of marine life….a giant devil ray!! They can grow to be up to 30 feet wide. This one is swimming near an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. I had earlier found some cows in Wyoming but this is a bit more exotic….the dark grey triangular shape smack in the middle of the pic.
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Anyone found the Burj Al Arab yet? Öhm, anyone interested in the Burj Al Arab??
DOXY !!!
The Pyramids you see are the Pyramids called SAKARA Pyramids .
Greets from Egypt.
I live in Dahab a nice Village in the SINAI.
Great for Relaxing Vacation and Holiday.
Start your Tour here :)))) http://www.guruk.com
Check out:
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Uluru (or Ayer’s Rock as it is known outside Australia) is something like 9km around and 300m high. You can see Kata Tjuta to the northwest.
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I think I found Mt. Everest too.
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Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
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Peter: The Burj-Al-Arab is not covered in hi-res images, it should be somewhere around here (the map looks old, not yet built imho): Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth