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Obama Gets Personal Google Earth Update

Update: As expected, GeoEye has released the satellite image they took of the inauguration today. You can directly download a higher resolution [698KB] version too. Today, the 20th of January 2009, the USA inaugurates its 44th President: Mr Barack Obama.…

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Tuesday, 20th January 2009

Merry Christmas!

It’s that time of year again when the team at Google Sightseeing take a well deserved bit of time off! For the next two weeks we only have a couple of posts planned, but we may still update our twitter…

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Wednesday, 24th December 2008

Street View in New Zealand

Google’s Street View service continues its spread across the globe with today’s launch in New Zealand. Skycity in Auckland Spotted any famous, cool or just weird sites in New Zealand? Let us know!

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Monday, 1st December 2008

Google Street View on iPhone

Apple’s recent iPhone 2.2 update has added Google Maps Street View to the already essential device. With the iPhone’s pinch-zoom and finger-panning, the experience is even better than on the web. The only downside is that the iPhone doesn’t automatically…

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Monday, 24th November 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets

If you’ve always dreamed of being a world-famous blogger, then you can’t do better than “Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets”. The just-released book by Stephane Grenier features interviews with 40 of the internet’s top bloggers, including the…

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Thursday, 13th November 2008

Willkommen zurück!

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…

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Thursday, 6th November 2008

Welcome to Google Sightseeing

Google Sightseeing takes you on a 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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Sivash: The Rotten Sea

Sivash is the shallow system of lagoons that separates Crimea from mainland Ukraine. Home to large-scale salt deposits, Sivash may just contain the most colourful waters to be found in Google Maps, with ponds of blue, beige and organe readily visible.

Revisiting Area 51

Whether it’s space aliens, light-speed travelling spaceships, or just some top-secret government testing, the world’s most famous “secret place” has…

Population: One

Recently the town of Burford, Wyoming made the headlines when it was sold for $900,000, which isn’t a bad price…

Lesotho: Kingdom in the Sky

Lesotho is one of the most unique countries on the planet. It’s the southernmost landlocked country, the largest country that’s entirely surrounded by another country, and the highest country on Earth. Yet, it doesn’t really show up on too many people’s radar. With the arrival of Google Street View imagery this month to Lesotho, it’s time to shed some light on the world’s largest enclave.

Rozenburg Wind Wall

The Netherlands is renowned for being a very flat1 and windy country. In the western town of Rozenburg the strong…

Portmeirion & The Prisoner

Portmeirion is a small resort village in North Wales famous for its Italianate architecture, and for being the setting for…

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