Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
There’s only a tiny amount of high-resolution Amsterdam. Dam Square in the centre of the city features a monument to Holland’s WWII dead and is outside of the Royal Palace (the big white building). Follow the roads to the east and you reach the world famous Red Light District.
Thanks: Auke Ypma, luckystarr, Chris & Ellen van Swieten (and Santiago for the correction).
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the Red Light District is east from the Dam, arond Placemark: here / Google Earth, Here’s a standard map of it.
Finally my hometown
The church just north-east of the palace is the Nieuwe Kerk (”new church”).
[Anne Frank's house](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.374800,4.883916&spn=0.004412,0.007206&t=k&hl=en) can be found going west from the palace. If you follow the channel northwards from the tower of the Westerkerk (”western church”), it’s the 2nd house after the sidestreet. A picture taken from the north can be found on the [Anne Frank website](http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=255&LID=1)
On the northern edge of the high resolution area you’ll find [Amsterdam Central Station](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.379352,4.900503&spn=0.004411,0.007206&t=k&hl=en) with the ferries just to the north of it. One of the ferries connects to the [island](http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.377433,4.928312&spn=0.035291,0.057648&t=k&hl=en) where my house is, unfortunately this is still in low resolution.
The Placemark: Oude Kerk / Google Earth (Old Church) is in hi-res, slap bang in what’s now the red light district.