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