Google Sightseeing » South Dakota

Streetview USA gets massive update

Alex Turnbull — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:23:53 +0000

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 Tower are now visible in Street View for the first time.

While the update includes places in Maine, West Virginia, North Dakota and South Dakota, a full list of the updates hasn’t yet been compiled as far as I can tell.¹

With all this new coverage, perhaps you’ll be the person to stumble across the next street fight, house on fire, or epic bike-related fail – so get submitting your street view discoveries now!

Possibly just because it would be too hard! The amount of extra coverage here is pretty astounding. ↩

Locations: Alabama, Maine, North Korea, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, West Virginia, Wyoming / Categories: Natural Landmarks, Street Views

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Heartland Country Corn Maze

James Turnbull — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:10:01 +0000

The 2002 design of the Heartland Country Corn Maze near Harrisburg was a coyote howling at the moon (with the letters USA in the lower right corner). This year they drew a 6.6 acre triceratops.

Thanks: David Thornton

Locations: South Dakota / Categories: Large Type, Mazes

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Crazy Horse Memorial

James Turnbull — Tue, 10 May 2005 07:34:23 +0000

A few miles from Mount Rushmore is the Crazy Horse Memorial which Korczak Ziolkowski started carving singlehandedly in 1948 and it’s not expected to be finished any time soon.

Although the satellite photo is not the best shot you can almost make out Crazy Horse’s 87 foot head in the piece of rock just south of the red-roofed building (it may help to compare to this photo) and his arm extending to the south-east. If you scroll to the south west you’ll find the visitors centre who have more information on the project at crazyhorse.org.

Thanks: Stephen Johnson & many others

Locations: South Dakota / Categories: Monuments

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Mount Rushmore

James Turnbull — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:10:12 +0000

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a 60ft rock carving featuring (left to right) former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.

Props to xylon (and many others).

Locations: South Dakota / Categories: Monuments

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