The recently announced Google Maps imagery updates are now online!

These new images once again bring Google Maps up to date with the images available in Google Earth, where the new imagery was added a couple of weeks ago. The Google Earth Blog has some details of what was added.

So, get submitting those new sights!

Like lots of things bought on the internet, our birthday present was a little late in arriving… however, 2 weeks after our first anniversary, we are proud to unveil the brand new Google Sightseeing design! So if you’re reading this in your news program, come take a look already, as we have several cool new features too.

Obviously it’s not finished yet (yes, this is a beta) – but have a wander around, kick the tyres, and let us know what you think.

We look forward to another great year!

There’s changes afoot as the staff at GgSs celebrate our first anniversary next week! We’ve got loads planned but they’ll have to wait a little while more as Alex is still awaiting a decent internet connection in his new flat and I’m off to Chicago for a week’s holiday

And while I’m posting news I recommend a Google Earth visit to Las Vegas as it has recently been updated to very high resolution imagery (3″/pixel!). Sadly the new images are not yet available on Google Maps.

Have a nice week everybody!

Google have quietly launched Google Mars, a Google Maps-like tool to view Elevation, Visible and Infrared images of the Red Planet.

There’s an FAQ explaining the different image modes and Google are apparently working on getting the Mars images into the Google Earth interface.

This came as a complete surprise to us, but apparently some widget-developers called Colorworks have built Google Sightseeing its very own widget! If you’re running Tiger on your Mac then give it a whirl – it can display either the 20 latest posts or comments (although you could of course have one widget for each if you like).

Loads of thanks to the guys at Colorworks – we love it!