Category: In the news
Another village with a hillarious name
According to news reports today, this Austrian village is not going to change it’s name. On Friday evening the people who live there voted to keep it. The name of the village? See image.
New prime minister of Denmark on Street View
The new PM of Denmark, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, was caught by the Krak streetview car. She is the lady in the white shirt, and this is her private residence in Copenhagen. (thanks Johan)
Caught red-handed
Making the news in Sweden today is this image of a young girl buying alcohol from a woman outside the state owned shop Systembolaget. Police are currently investigating who’s in the picture.
News making
Oslo bomb location on Google Maps Street View
Todays major explosion in Oslo, Norway took place in or near this building where prime minister Jens Stoltenberg was working. According to news reports he is in a safe place. Several people dead and many injured.
All summer, Google Street View will be taking photos in Estonia
Joint Stock Company Regio is from June 19 until the end of this summer’s external work on the technology of Street View, in which will be collected images of objects obtained by means of photographs, laser measurements of roads and GPS-navigation, as well as information on road signs.
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Street View in Estonia
Today Google Street View announced they are going to shoot photos for Street View in Estonia during the next couple of weeks.
In november 2010, Google made tests in Estonia. (dzd)
Just a couple of days after the I35 Minneapolis bridge collapse
Cameron’s Inspiration
This is the church of the town that was chosen for David Cameron’s (UK PM) daughter’s middle name as she was born in the county. Her name is now, Florence Rose Endellion Cameron. Also if you go toward the ‘Road Closed’ sign, the sign and workers disappear.
