Streetview arrives in Mexico, Hawaii, updates in Netherlands, Spain
Another month, another absolutely massive Street View update. The big news is that Google has launched a wealth of imagery for previously uncovered Mexico; but they’ve also added imagery to Hawaii for the first time, added many new places in the Netherlands, and also provided brand new coverage for huge areas of Spain.
Mexico
In Mexico the cities of Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Puerto Vallarta, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel and Cancun have all received coverage. So far we’ve spotted the world famous Teotihuacan pyramid, complete with people on top (previously covered in 2005):
The world’s largest bullring, which we viewed from above earlier this year.
And one of Mexico’s greatest exports, character piñatas.
Hawaii
Until now Hawaii was the only US state to not have Streetview coverage – but Google has now remedied that by bringing us imagery of main island of Hawaii. Here, covered in a blue tarpaulin, we can see the nose cone of the plane that was used in the opening episode of Lost – which was filmed around here somewhere…
Netherlands
The Netherlands already had excellent coverage, which allowed us to see all sorts of exciting nudity, prostitution, and other Not Safe For Work antics. The latest update goes on to cover Utrecht, Den Haag1, Eindhoven, Den Bosch, Tilburg, Leeuwarden, Apeldoorn, Deventer and Amersfoort!
All of this means we can now see the brilliant Kubuswoning from ground-level (previously covered in 2006):
The windmills at the popular tourist destination, Kinderdijk, were captured by the Google Trike (turn round for loads more):
Spain
Finally Spain, which already had good coverage, has received an almost total blanket of blue streets. The updates extend right out to the Canary Islands, now covering Mallorca, Gran Canaria and Tenerife.
Here’s the Guggenheim Bilbao, complete with another massive spider (they pop up everywhere on Streetview it seems), which we covered back in 2005:
For continuing Spanish-language coverage of all the new Streetview imagery, you should follow Google Sightseeing Español on Twitter.
Have you found something interesting? Leave a comment below!
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Where the original Topless Sunbather was found. ↩
So “brand new”...” 
Our favourite exclave-fest, Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau, is now on Street View! (See http://googlesightseeing.com/2008/12/12/complicated-borders/ )
Start here: Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
This house in Baarle is in the Netherlands, but its mailbox is in Belgium.
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
And it’s for sale – one for a geography nerd, perhaps… http://www.huizenzoeker.nl/koop/noord-brabant/baarle-nassau/oordeelsestraat_3/details.html
Perhaps we should branch out into property sales? There’s plenty of geography nerds round here that’s for sure…
“Geographically Weird Real Estate” – sounds like a nice market niche
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Hi,
Wow this is just amazing, i love it – i can visit everywhere i’ve been on my hols in spain .
The main gs and twitter feed has stopped working for me ? not had anything since last week ?
The combined feed? We’ll look into it, thanks!
Hi Chris,
The feed validates ok, and it has the latest content in it too: http://feedvalidator.org/check?url=http:%2F%2Fpipes.yahoo.com%2Fpipes%2Fpipe.run%3F_id%3DAMcrKZf03RGM1cEGdvQQIA%26_render%3Drss
This may be something Yahoo have changed? I’ll see if I can create a new one that works.
Hi Alex,
Its still not working- I use it in Outlook 07 if that is any help.
Thanks for looking into this for me – i need my daily fix of GS
woops also forgot to mention, the whole route up to mount teide in tenerife (main volcano) has been removed – no longer available, whys that then – maybe they thought it would stop people from traveling up the volcano (i dont think so)
sorry forgot to add linkage
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
I noticed that too. Perhaps the whole road was lined with naked people…