Google Street View in Germany

After years of wrangling and debate over the privacy issues, Street View images are finally available for 20 of Germany’s largest cities. To secure release of the images Google had to allow Germans to opt-out of having their house on…

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Friday, 19th November 2010

GSS Now Optimised for iPhone, iPad and Other Mobile Devices

We’ve recently added a number of improvements to Google Sightseeing for those on mobile devices. Firstly, users on smaller screens such as iPhone, iPod or Android phones will automatically see our new mobile-optimised style, which breaks the site down into…

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Wednesday, 17th November 2010

A Secret Message from Google Brazil

Standing outside their offices in Belo Horizonte, we find the Google Team,officially welcoming Street View to Brazil. We’ve recently heard rumors that, as with so many of Google’s products, one of the engineers has a hidden message…. Perhaps it’s this…

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Tuesday, 5th October 2010

New Street View images for Antarctica, Ireland and Brazil

Today Google have added even more countries to their ever-expanding Street View offering, which now takes Pegman onto all seven continents of the world! As it’s Google Sightseeing’s Fifth Annual Island Week, Google have kindly added a small amount of…

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Thursday, 30th September 2010

ABC News on Google’s Street View

A very warm welcome to all our new readers who found out about Google Sightseeing via a mention on ABC News’ Nightline show1 the other night. We have over 5 years’ of archive posts for you to explore and you…

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Thursday, 23rd September 2010

HubPages Marks the Spot

Recognising our literary passion, technical knowledge, and expertise in the online mapping field1, the web’s 57th most popular website, HubPages, have asked Alex and I to join their expert panel and judge entries to their latest contest “HubPages Marks the…

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Tuesday, 31st August 2010
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Welcome to Google Sightseeing

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. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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The Futuro House

The Futuro House is a round, prefabricated house that was designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen in 1968. About 100…

Brasília: a Modernist Masterpiece

The largest city on the planet that wasn’t in existence at the beginning of the 20th century, the city of…

Crazy SCUBA Guys Chase Street View

Google has today launched brand new Street View imagery for Norway, Finland and large parts of Canada. But it’s in…

Definitely a duck (maybe)

Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…

Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene

The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…

Trollstigen (Troll’s path)

In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…

Recent Comments

  1. Guardian Heroes: Ok, that view from the lions gate looks amazing. I’d like to visit there someday.
  2. Mark: Guessing, from this account, that it’s Kevin Barrera. The location linked isn’t exact, but the...
  3. Alex Turnbull: Given how long the body must have lain there (long enough for the aerial photography airplane to have...
  4. Alex Turnbull: Hi Stuart, are you looking at the police officer? The victim looks pretty dead to me :(
  5. Doug: I love the joke you guys play — posting the EXACT same thing every February 2, now for the sixth year in...

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