The Google latlong blog has just announced that they’ve added street view imagery for 8 more US cities - Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Providence.

They’ve also linked to this cool image of the Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston for us - but what new activities can you find on the streets of these cities?

Just remember to send us your finds!

Thanks to Rob for letting us know.

Today, the fourth Thursday of November, is the American holiday of Thanksgiving.

The Thanksgiving festival traditionally thanks God at the end of the year’s harvest, and is a tradition passed down from the Plymouth Colony who settled in New Plymouth in 1620.

When these Pilgrims first landed they apparently stepped on what is now known as “Plymouth Rock”, a large piece of granite which is currently housed in the rectangular building on the shore.

The rock wasn’t identified as being of any significance until over a hundred years later in 1741, when an elder of the church pointed it out as being “the stone”.

Since then it’s been broken in two, dragged all around Plymouth, and had numerous chunks removed. Its current resting place was built in 1920 and puts the rock back at sea level.

Happy thanksgiving to all our American readers!

Wikipedia: Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Colony & Thanksgiving

Thanks to Steve Ransom, AndrewAnorak & John

Here at GGSS we’ve previously featured rooftop and field-based marriage proposals which, for some unknown reason, are highly likely to feature misspellings or bad grammar.

So we’re very pleased to see that the latest finding, the words “Marry Me Tammy” written in a field, do pass our strict criteria for aerial-based marriage proposals. Congratulations!

However, some may call the suitor (a man named Brian) a cheater: he enlisted outside help to create his proposal! The giant writing was actually written by mapping specialists GISmatters for the reality television program ‘Perfect Proposal’.

The 100-foot high letters, claimed to be the World’s Largest Marriage Proposal, were revealed to Tammy from the window of an aeroplane back in 2004.

Thanks: Brian

Can anyone figure out what on earth this giant egg-like thing is, near Acton, Massachusetts?

Update: As ever our readers have come to the rescue, and it seems that this is the Annursnac Hill Reservoir, a covered water storage facility sitting on the top of Annursnac Hill. There’s a fantastic birds-eye view of it over at Live Local, although Safari users be aware that it doesn’t work with your browser yet, but it works just fine in Firefox.

Thanks to Jesse.

In Barre, Massachusetts there’s the giant words “God’s Wisdom” written on the ground. To the north is a large cross which looks like it might be drawn using white rocks and further north a building which I’m assuming is a church.

Thanks: Rob B

One of the most recognized corporate symbols in the United States is that of the Target corporation, who have 1,351 stores in 47 of the 50 states.

Of those 1,351 stores we’ve found three which have a giant Target painted on the roof, all of which are unsurprisingly located near major international airports (not air force bases, because that would be silly ;-)).

The first target store is in Rosemont (with the Allstate Arena just to the south) and lies in the flight paths to O’Hare International Airport.

Our second target is in Queens, New York City and is just east of La Guardia Airport.

Another store in Everett, a suburb of Boston, just west of Logan International Airport.

And lastly we zip across to Australia for this target, which I assumed was advertising for the benefit of those landing at Brisbane Airport but I was wrong, as noted in the comments by Neil…

The Target store is used as a reporting point for the Archerfiled aerodrome, which is to the West. The Target represents the entry point for aircraft entering the Archerfiled control zone from the East, and has nothing to do with the Brisbane Airport, which is to the North.

Although very similar looking the Target chain of Australia is actually a completely separate company to the U.S. version.

Thanks to the target spotting talent of Dan Hartung, Steve, El Warren, Mark, Kári Tulinius, Dann, Jason, Derek DYsart, dan_the_stud, Dave D, Ryan Toyota, Brian, Keith T, Erik Nygren, Infinity, Lee Bennett, Louis Koziarz, Eric Doherty, Carol & rascalking.

Check out this giant liquefied natural gas tank that sits just to the side of the Southeast Expressway in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Ironcladlou (who is now on his fourth posted submission!) says:

The gas tank (as it’s known ’round these parts) used to have a twin, which sat where the blank circle is just to the left of it. Originally, the now-demolished tank was the one with the rainbow painting, and when they destroyed it, they then painted the previously unadorned one. Another interesting tidbit, the gas tank is the largest piece of copyrighted artwork in the world.

Home to the New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium was still under construction when this photo was taken. You can also see the old Foxboro Stadium (which Gillette stadium has replaced) to the west.

Thanks: Jason B, ironcladlou, Blitz, Rob & Darby