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.
Over at the official Google blog is the announcement of Google Local now using the same image database as Google Earth, as well as gaining two extra zoom levels! Of course that means there’s even more cool places which we can visit via satellite sightseeing and perhaps re-visit some older sights with increased clarity.
If you find anywhere cool then make sure you get the kudos by letting us know via the Suggest a sight form.
This form will auto-link URLs or you can use simple HTML, <a href="http://googlesightseeing.com">Like this</a>.
Link to specific places either as a Google Maps page or a decimal latitude and longitude written like this: lat/lng:55.949400,-3.200000.
If you've found an unrelated sight that you think should be posted in its own entry then use the suggestion form!
Fantastic! That makes all the images available to those of us who can’t run Google Earth!
Anyone else notice the high-resolution imagery of Area 51?
ooh, check out the millenium wheel!!
You can actually see the changing of the guard marching in formation.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
This [I]is[/I] Buckingham Palace, right?
Interesting that in the process they’ve dropped the pixelation of the White House, US Capitol and US Supreme Court buildings in Washington DC USA.
Timhogs - even MORE interesting is that the pixelation above our “other” presidents residence (the Naval Observatory) is still there.
HMMMMMMMM
Fantastic !!