Category: Norway
Sunbathing in Bergen, Norway
Sunbathing in Norway
Snorkelers chasing google away!
Bruce Springsteen stage in Norway
This photo was apparently taken during summer 2009 when Bruce Springsteen was in Bergen for two concerts at this location.
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Norwegian fashion
StreetView in Norway and Finland!
Nobel peace price winners recieve their award here at Oslo Townhall.
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Norway on streetview
Well, it’s the border between Sweden and Norway, close to the ski resort Riksgränsen (Sweden) and Narvik (Norway).
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Google StreetView comes to Norway today
At a press conference earlier today Google announced that their StreetView cars will start to cover Norway. The cameras mounted on top of Googles cars will start to take images tomorrow (that’s Thursday April the 23rd). For now Google will only take photos of the capital Oslo and the second largest town named Bergen. This according to local news media reports in Norway today. Google StreetView cars are also in two other Scandinavian countries taking photos at the moment – Denmark and Sweden. It will most likely take a couple of months until the images will be online for everybody to see.
Norway gets street view images
A service just like Google Maps StreetView premiered in Norway this weekend. The name of the service is sesam.no Gatebilder. The images are for now only covering the capital of Norway, Oslo.
During summer 2008 sesam took 350.000 images using a black Volkswagen. Unlike Google Maps you can actually see the car on every panorama image if you move the camera. Very few people are visible since they deliberately choose Sunday mornings to take the panorama images. Faces are also censored.
The images are in higher quality than Google StreetView. It looks like it’s at least partly made by Mapjack. (Sesam also owns a similar search service with street view images in Sweden named hitta.se Gatubilder)
