The Map is back after a long holiday in the sun, and he appears to have grown wider. Must have been all those burgers and beers.

Don’t expect many posts over the next three days or so as all the Google Sightseeing admins are off to Prague for my Stag Weekend. We’ll be back to normal (although possibly a little hung over) on Monday.

Wow, we made the Feedster Top 500 blog list. Not bad considering we’ve only been going four months!

Sorry about the slight downtime there folks. We’re back online again with added goodness. I’ve put the Google Earth links back online with some caching to cut down on the number of database queries. We’ll see how this pans out…

Google have added yet more features to Google Maps . There is now a new ‘Hybrid’ button on the maps interface that gives you the satellite imagery with the roads and place names overlaid. Pretty neat! Of course, as we…

This isn’t a sight I’m afraid, just a quick update… Has anyone else noticed that Google have finally put a scale on their maps? Update: Yup, sorry it appears I missed the boat. There’s an article over on Scavengeroogle about…