Google have today released a huge amount of new StreetView images from the UK. CNET reports:
Google will make a further 210,000 miles of UK roads available for your perusal on Street View this Thursday, adding to the 28,000 miles that are currently shown. That means you’ll be able to see about 96 per cent of this leafy land’s approximately 246,985 miles of thoroughfares.
This is the Flower Market in Hong Kong.
Some germans found a google streetview car in Berlin and decided to follow it with a camera. StreetView is not yet available in Germany. Protests have been loud by the germans. Google plan to release StreetView images later this year from Germany.
Watch this video for some amazing matchups between Flickr and Bing StreetSide.
This tech preview mines geo-tagged photos from Flickr, and relates them to our Streetside imagery to show images matched to its original spatial context. Why is this cool? You’re now able to see what that club looks like at night (is it really THAT scary?), see if you’re really going to get a good sunset at that B&B you’re looking to book, or check out the crowds on a Saturday morning at Pike Place Market in Seattle or get a view of the same market from decades prior. (official Bing blog)
Google streetview have visited the slopes in Vancouver, Canada to cover where the Olympics are taking place.
NORWAY: has been added
FINLAND: has been added
CANADA: Lots more available (looks like the bulk is in Saskatchewan and Alberta)
MEXICO: has a little more added along highways
USA:
More shots in Alaska
(there’s surely a lot more updates than that, but that’s what I saw so far)
Earlier today we posted an image of a guy who fell of his bike in Denmark. It looked funny, but also dangerous since a car was driving by at the same time. Turns out he was trying to take a photo of the google car with his cell phone. When he fell of his bike, he didn’t get seriously hurt. He knew someone at google and could tell them what happened.
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A couple of days ago we posted an image of some guys taking a bath outdoors. It turns out it is Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips… This is one of surprisingly few celebrity sightings so far on StreetView.
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The largest map site in the US is called Mapquest. Today they finally got a streetview service. It’s called 360 View. Google StreetView have higher image quality and I think it will be tough for Mapquest to compete with Google.
Hitta.se has realeased aprox. 20 new cities with streetview type images, all in Sweden. There are now 29 cities available.
