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.
A last minute imagery update of the year has appeared in Google Earth.
By my count the eighth update this year, Google have continued the recent trend of announcing the update with a scavenger hunt. Read the Latlong blog for the full hunt or try the comments on Gearth Blog for more direct instructions.
Get suggesting!
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!
The weirdest and best of Google Earth is now available in the…
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Someone’s been spinning spiders’ webs on the sea. But that’s fairly old.
In the new imagery, not yet on Google Maps, there’s
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
Which is Carrick-a-Reed, a famous island connected to Ireland by a rope bridge originally built a very long time ago.
Not directly related… But Tunisia has been updated, I went there last spring and I was disapointed that Google Maps didn’t provide hi-res of this country.
Some interesting places:
Placemark: Star Wars film location / Google Earth
Placemark: Tunis, Medina / Google Earth
Placemark: Matmata, Troglodyte houses and Star Wars film location / Google Earth
Snowdon Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth and a small area to the south of it are now in high res for no very obvious reason
One of the not so good updates unfortunatly.. many of the new strips in Wales, Scotland and Ireland are dark and poor quality.