Rudely interrupting our very important Volcano Week 3, Google have chosen this week to make two significant imagery updates. Firstly, a ton of new satellite and aerial imagery is currently available worldwide in Google Earth. A scavenger hunt for the…

Regular readers of Google Sightseeing, and especially those who own the book, would probably enjoy last week’s James May’s Big Ideas. The program opened with May visiting Russia to see miniature Ekranoplans, a popular sight from the book, and also…

We’re delighted to announce that the Google Sightseeing team now has two new writers! Ian Brown manages a fair trade retail store in Ottawa, Canada, and says he spends his spare time perusing maps to find new routes to ride…

Our friends over at Virtual Globetrotting are currently running a Street View scavenger hunt to find interesting words in the imagery. Prizes for the top 5 competitors in the scavenger hunt is a copy of the 5 star rated classic…

Last week was our our third annual Island Week, and we had another fascinating week! This year even more of you than ever sent in brilliant islands for us, most of which we simply didn’t have time to post.1 Here’s…

Last week, when we failed to post a new entry one day, we weren’t just sitting around barbecuing you know! No, in fact we were writing an article for PC World, the world’s largest monthly computer publication! The article went…