Here at Google Sightseeing we get a lot of people asking us stuff, so we’ve finally put together a Frequently Asked Questions page. There you can learn how to send us maps, visit a specific latitude and longitude, and even who we are, amongst lots of other useful stuff.

We’ll be adding to the FAQ page over time, so feedback is welcome. But for the moment, we hope you find it useful

You might have noticed that we’ve made a few changes around the site. The main one is the introduction of the ‘Map’ tab above. This gives you a mini google maps interface with all of our ’sights’ plotted on it. You can also filter this map by category and do all the usual zooming in and out, pannning and switching between map and satellite view. If you would like to see a particular post’s location on the map just click the ‘Map This’ link and you’ll switch to the map view with the location marked. We’ve also given our thumbnail images a spruce up with a nice frame to help them stand out a bit more and generally tidied up a few of the other pages.

The inspiration and help for the map code came from the excellent ‘Google Maps Standalone‘ and Chicago Crime.

If you have any suggestions, comments or bugs please leave them as comments on this post. Thanks!

Update: There is a major bug on the map page when using Internet Explorer. The page loads but then throws up an error box and you then get the error page. I’m working on a fix for this, it is a known IE bug.

Update 2: The popup bubble is still not working in Safari, I think it’s something to do with the xslt file. The points not clearing when you select a different category bug has been fixed and the status text is a bit more helpful now.

Just in case you hadn’t noticed yet, we’ve finally made the move to a permanent domain. Welcome to googlesightseeing.com!

RSS feed has also been updated (googlesightseeing.com/feed/), as has the comments RSS feed (googlesightseeing.com/comments/feed/).

We’ve also been getting more press coverage. There’s an article over at the Weekly Planet about Google Maps which James was interviewed for (which looks like it’ll be the cover story in the print edition too), and I did an interview for Newsweek.

Thanks again for all the support we’ve received from everybody!

Wow, what a launch we’ve had! Thanks to everyone who has submitted locations for us to check out. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response! If you’ve submitted somewhere and we haven’t posted it please be patient as there are over 1700 submissions in the queue for us to review.

Thanks to the following for linking us:

• All hail the mighty Google Blog
• BBC News’ Technology section
• The Guardian’s Webwatch Column
• Andy Baio’s waxy.org/links/
• The masses at del.icio.us
• The Village Voice
• and many, many more

We aren’t the only ones obsessed about Google Maps.

Mike Pegg over at Google Maps Mania has an excellent blog detailing news, new features, background and gossip about the map service.

As Brits we’re also pleased to see that Google have released Google Maps UK, currently no super-detailed satellite coverage but I’m sure they’re working on it. Can’t wait to get posting all those UK landmarks.

Thanks again for all the support.

Alex, James & Olly

One of the most requested features for this site is Browse All Posts by Locality.