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Streetview USA gets massive update

Wednesday, 10th December 2008 by

Yesterday, Google announced that they had added some extra cities to Street View, including Memphis, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; and Charleston, South Carolina. What’s even more interesting though, is that this update includes a lot of the places in-between places – highways coast-to-coast are now on Street View, and the coverage in the US has actually been doubled. This means that some of Google Sightseeing’s previously posted sights, like The Devil’s…

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