Parks and Islands (and Denmark too)
Wednesday, 2nd November 2011 by Alex Turnbull
Hello! Yes we are still here, we've just been caught up (temporarily at least) with offline activities.
As we haven't been keeping you bang up-to-date with the goings on on Google Maps, we should point out that Google just yesterday released a great Street View update that covers the grounds of six parks around the world, including High Line Park where we went on a great tour very recently. Definitely worth checking it out again now that's there's Street View inside the park itself. Here's the full list of new coverage with links to the imagery.
- High Line Park, New York City, USA
- Liberty Park, Jersey City, USA
- Kensington Gardens, London, UK
- Koganei Park, Tokyo, Japan
- Knuthenborg Safari Park, Zealand, Denmark1
- Casa de Campo Parque, Madrid, Spain
Update: There was also a major update to the imagery in Denmark yesterday, that includes coverage of Legoland Billund and Aalborg Zoo. Check the Google Denmark blog for full details.
On other fronts, we've got some great new content coming to the site soon including the return of the brilliantly non-specific **Island Week*! If you'd like to get involved, please send us your ideas for Island week posts via our submission form, or if you'd like to contribute an article, or even become a writer for Google Sightseeing then get in touch with your ideas.
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A safari park! Bonus points to anyone who can find interesting fauna? ↩︎
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Alex has decided that his title will be Senior Vice President of Stuff.
Legoland Billund in Denmark is covered too 🙂
Thanks Rasmus – so there is! I’ll update the post.
Your link for Knuthenborg actually points to Ladies View in Ireland at present … nice, but not quite right 😉 Also, Knuthenborg is on Falster, not Sjeland I did at least manage to find a herd of bison at Knuthenborg though: View Placemark,,2,4.4
I managed to find some other animals as well 😉 View Placemark,,0,13.39 View Placemark,,1,3.73 View Placemark,,1,0.5 View Placemark,,2,0.82
Apologies in advance for the off-topic comment, but seeing as we can’t leave comments on the street view posts, I thought the least bad place for this was the latest news…
I was having a virtual wander around the Google campus after seeing the post with all the street view cars in it, and got a bit weirdly lost.
Start at this point: http://g.co/maps/d8b2x Then click the forward arrow (the one at 11 o’clock). You end up falling out of a wormhole and onto an 8-lane freeway: http://g.co/maps/73r2e Clearly the jump has messed with your sense of balance, because when you try and look around, you can’t stand up properly: http://g.co/maps/mkrfw Try move anywhere on this road and you end up back in Mountain View.
Here’s another one, a little bit further down the road. Start on Stierlin Ct, just outside Microsemi: http://g.co/maps/mcvx7 Now attempt to wander into their carpark. Boom, suddenly you’re on a 3-lane road: http://g.co/maps/kd7f4 But wait, it gets better! Attempt to cross the road, and a wooden walkway appears: http://g.co/maps/6be5a And now click the left/forward arrow to meander left down this new road. Suddenly you’re on an overpass over a different stretch of 8-lane freeway: http://g.co/maps/k3pnx
I can understand how new roads and enterprise parks/industrial estates get built quickly, leading to a mismatch between datasets, but the appearance of the freeway was unexpected. And being so close to the HQ, I’d have thought someone would have spotted the weirdness before. Unless it’s a private joke that I don’t understand?