This post was updated 29th July 2007 On the 19th of June 2005, a Mahfooz Aviation Boeing 707-347C crashed while landing at Addis Ababa-Bole Airport in Ethiopia. Luckily all 5 crew survived, but the aircraft was written off. Although I…

We recently had a request to find the Neighbours set, and we always like to keep our readers happy, so here is the real Ramsay Street. If you view in 'Hybrid' mode you might accuse my of telling fibs, as…

JP found this little building on a seemingly un-inhabited tiny island off Macau. Written on the roof is some Chinese characters and the word "ZAO" - secret lair perhaps? A bit of investigation let me to this KML file which…

Frank Taylor of the Google Earth Blog has posted a great video review of the new Google Sightseeing book - Off the Map (or Not In the Guide Book as it's known in the UK) on YouTube! Aw shucks, we…

Just to the West of the Swiss town of Morges we find the biggest Swiss flag in the world (probably). It's about 80 metres square and has been painted on a roof. Out faithful reader ChrisW (who suggested this sight)…

It's two stadiums in one! While looking at the most recent Imagery update for Google Earth on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, I was trying to match up the older Google Maps images with the newer Google Earth images. I…