Street Views

While driving along Telephone Road in Waikato, New Zealand, you may notice that someone appears to have tried to park their car on top of a large tree stump. This doesn't seem to be an officially sanctioned public artwork, but…

Yes, we're finally back, and as to be expected, we missed some great Google Earth-related news while we were off. Firstly the story that seems to have sprung up everywhere is (of course) a Street View one. The garage419 site…

It's that time of year again when the team at Google Sightseeing take a well deserved bit of time off! For the next two weeks we only have a couple of posts planned, but we may still update our twitter…

Well we've thought we've seen people relieving themselves in front of the Street View car before, but we've never had such definitive evidence. No, it's not what you're thinking - quite the opposite in fact. This time, while working in…

Despite Google's oh-so-clever "face-blurring" technology, sometimes people's faces don't get recognised by the system, and make it onto the Street View imagery unaltered. Here at the Colosseum in Rome, a couple found a perfect way to fool the camera... by…

We all know that Santa lives at the North Pole, and the World's Largest Santa can be found there too... that is, in the city of North Pole, Alaska. This 12m tall Santa can be found on St Nicholas Drive,…