Note: This post is by one half of our brand new German translation team!

After two months without updates, the German translation of Google Sightseeing has just been relaunched!

de.googlesightseeing.com is being managed by myself, Jenni Fuchs, and my brother Joe. I work for the National Museum of Scotland and live in Edinburgh, while Joe is a Mathematics student living in good old Germany – hopefully the perfect blend to guarantee the best translations.

In addition to daily translations of all the best posts from the original Google Sightseeing, suggestions of new sights from our German readers are most welcome, and can be submitted on the German site via “Sight Vorschlagen” on the top right of the German site.

Furthermore, you should expect brand new Germany-specific articles as soon as Street View is available in Germany!

We’re really looking forward to sharing all the places we discover along the way, and of course criticisms and suggestions are always welcome.

Your German Google Sightseeing Team Jenni und Joe!

Hot on the heels of Street View in Spain earlier this week comes Street View in Italy¹, covering Milan, Florence, Rome and Lake Como.

This is a copy of Michelangelo’s David standing at his original location in front of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence.

Make sure to tell us what you find, or if you prefer your Italy Sightseeing in Italian, head over to Google Sightseeing Italiano.

Thanks to Google Maps Mania

As predicted, Spanish Street View Images have just launched across the major Spanish cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, and Valencia!

The images seem to be generally excellent quality, affording us some spectacular view’s of architect Antoni Gaudí’s perpetually-unfinished masterpiece in Barcelona, La Sagrada Família.

So, what else have you found?

Despite having their own mobile phone platform to develop for, Google have somehow managed to find time to write one of the most important mobile applications yet released – yes you guessed it, Google Earth has been launched for the iPhone!

The application is free to download from the iTunes Store and initial impressions are good. The pinch/zoom functionality from the iPhone has been fully implemented, as has a physical tilting view that works surprisingly well. On the down side however, the application is pretty slow at this stage, despite the imagery having been scaled back to speed things up.

Google Earth iPhone includes all the data that the full version of Google Earth displays from Wikipedia and Panaramio but doesn’t yet support kml files, so as yet we’re unable to load Google Sightseeing links directly into the Google Earth app.

With the announcement that Street View imagery will be coming to the iPhone very soon, it now seems that the full suite of Google’s geo-focussed products are about to become available literally anywhere in the world.

In the meantime, remember that Google Sightseeing is already optimised for your iPhone, so you can keep up with the latest sightings on the move.

All of a sudden we seem to have reached the end of our third annual Volcano Week, and we’ve posted some fascinating locations so far – however so many of you have sent us excellent suggestions that we now have even more fascinating volcanoes to write about than we did when we started!

So to try and clear the backlog a bit, we’ve decided to devote today to posting as many fascinating volcanoes as we possibly can in one day – expect a much greater volume of posts today than normal!