New Concept Car out for a spin
This is the Quaranta, probably one of the least likely cars you'd ever expect to find on Street View - as it's the only one of its kind in existence! The "Quaranta" (Italian for "Forty"), is the latest concept from…
Welcome to the brand new Ordnance Survey Sightseeing site!
Today we're embarking on a brand new journey. After long negotiations with Britain's national mapping agency, we're extremely pleased to announce that from today the website previously known as Google Sightseeing is to become ORDNANCE SURVEY SIGHTSEEING. Ordnance Survey is…
World’s Largest Movable Technical Industrial Machines
The mining regions of Germany are home to five of the world's largest movable technical industrial machines - the Overburden Conveyor Bridge F60. Larger than the Eiffel Tower, these machines weigh 13,600 tons and are up to 502m long, 80m…
MV Ross Revenge
Tied up in Tilbury Docks, we find the MV Ross Revenge, home to Radio Caroline and one of the last surviving pirate radio ships. For many people in the UK and Western Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, pirate…
Street View Car Dreams of the Laguna Seca Raceway
As one of Google Street View cars drove past the Laguna Seca Raceway, it happened to capture a photograph of a race in action. Aware of its own existence as a fuel-efficient-but-not-exactly-a-racecar Toyota Prius, the anthropomorphized car obviously dreamed of…
Red River Floodway
To the east of Winnipeg lies the Red River Floodway, a 47km long channel intended to prevent disastrous flooding in Canada's 8th largest city. The arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere leads to flood alerts in many areas as…
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