Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Mountain Venues
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
U.S. States
Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet
The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet is a collection of mothballed warships near Benecia, California (More info). Thanks: Harold Check & elsamo
Office Space
Top technology headquarters around America: Google, Apple Computer & Microsoft. Thanks: Eric, Mathew, Ahmad
Mount St. Helens
It hasn’t erupted since 1980 March 2005, but apparently Mount St Helens still counts as an active volcano. Not great resolution here yet though. Thanks: Sean Miller, kb and others.
Space Needle, Seattle
Another impressive shadow – the Seattle Space Needle. The red and purple blob next door is the Experience Music Project. Thanks: Phillip Harrington, Mike, many others.
49ers, Philadelphia & Olympic Stadiums
The first stadium is the San Francisco 49er’s Stadium Monster Park (formerly 3com park) (thumbnail #1 below) and it seems they were playing at the moment the photo was taken. There’s lots of stadiums in this shot of Philadelphia In…
The Gateway Arch, St. Louis
A very popular submission has been the The Gateway Arch or rather it’s massive shadow, ‘raydancer’ notes that is it the tallest national monument is the United States at 630 feet and is just as wide. If you look West…
Best of Google Sightseeing
US Space & Rocket Center
NASA’s first visitor centre, and one of the world’s largest public collections of space bits is the U.S. Space and…
20 Years of a Free Nelson Mandela
Exactly 20 years ago today, on the 11th February 1990, the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from a 27-year…
Definitely a duck (maybe)
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
Google Maps publishes aerial images of murder scene
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
Trollstigen (Troll’s path)
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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