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.
The newly released Google Earth Web Plugin allows you to access the 3D globe of Google Earth, right within your browser.
You can give it a go right now as we’ve enabled the Google Earth mode on our map page1. Let us know how you get on in the comments.
You can read more about the announcement on O’reilly and Google Earth Blog.
The web plugin is currently only available for Windows PCs, but Mac and Linux support is supposedly “coming soon”. ↩
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!
With 144 pages of glossy high-quality satellite photos, the weirdest and best of Google Earth is now available in the…
”
Google have far too much time and too many resources to be funded by earthly means, I fear you may be on to something, Alex.
Me? What have I done?
It’s not 1st of April, isn’t it?
Darn it, it turns out you need to be administrator to install the plugin…
This seems to run surprisingly smoothly, probably due to the lack of terrain features or roads.
There is no Linux support…