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Third Annual Google Sightseeing Island Week

Well, it's not exactly the same week as it has been in previous years (in fact this year it's not even during the same month), but nevertheless, the official Third Annual Google Sightseeing Island Week is upon us! In a…

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Monday, 1st September 2008

Image Update July 08

Another month, another image update! Frank at gearthblog.com seems to have been first to spot that there's new imagery in Google Earth, which has now been confirmed on the Latlong Blog. Currently unavailable in Google Maps1, the new imagery includes:…

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Saturday, 12th July 2008

Google Sightseeing now Available in Six Languages!

Today we’re extremely proud to be launching three new translations of Google Sightseeing: Dutch, German and Spanish! These three new blogs join our successful existing translations of French and Italian, so you can now come sightseeing around Google Earth with…

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Wednesday, 9th July 2008

Desert Week Roundup

And so, we come to end of our first ever desert week. It turns out that we only featured two actual deserts over the week, and we even failed to mention the world's largest desert! Despite these we think it's…

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Saturday, 21st June 2008

Loads of new areas for Google Street View

Last week, we celebrated Street View's first anniversary with our Top 10 unseen posts. Google have now joined in the celebrations by adding a massive 37 new areas. All the new areas are still US based, but the update does…

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Wednesday, 11th June 2008

Google Earth Web Plugin Released

The newly released Google Earth Web Plugin allows you to access the 3D globe of Google Earth, right within your browser. You can give it a go right now as we've enabled the Google Earth mode on our map page1.…

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Wednesday, 28th May 2008

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

Like this site? We published a photo book of the best entries, you should buy a copy.