While we were busy scouring the brand new Australia Day images, we failed to notice that Google have also unleashed an absolute wealth of new imagery for the rest of the world! Here’s what’s been updated:

• The entire country of Switzerland at 50cm and many Swiss cities at 25cm. This of course means the Swiss Alps are now high-res, including the Matterhorn - which is incredible seen in Google Earth.

• The entire country of Denmark at 50cm
• The French cities of Lyon; LeMans; Lourdes; Riems; Nancy; Limoges; Lille and Arles
• Potsdam and Magdeburg, Germany
• Barcelona, Belem, CapeTown, Galapagos (Isabella Island), Manaus, Mt Saint Helens, Recife, Rio, Venice)
• Whistler, British Columbia
• The whole states of Wyoming and Utah

It seems here’s also been loads of other Digitalglobe updates too, so what on earth are you waiting for? Get exploring already, and send us what you find!

Thanks to Google Maps Mania and the Google Earth Blog!

There’s some absolutely fantastic looking cars here at the NRMA Motorfest, which was captured in super-high resolution as part of the Australia Day Flyover. The event takes place each Australia Day in Sydney, and is the biggest outdoor display of vehicles in the southern hemisphere.

The full festival programme says other car-oriented events were staged on elsewhere, but I haven’t been able to find any so far. I did find a good Flickr set of the event, but unfortunately it doesn’t name the cars! So I guess we’ll have to rely on the petrol heads to fill us in…

Thanks to… me! Go me