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Over this last weekend, GoogleEarthBlog reader Mark Crook in Queenstown, New Zealand spotted a Google Street View car.  Google Streetview has spent the past couple of months covering the north & south islands.

Alex Kidman 5th August 2008
APC Magazine
Under the previous Government, if you spotted strange folks taking photographs of most of the important parts of the country, you were encouraged to dob them in, so that they could be safely imprisoned and shipped off for some off-shore questioning by our happy American allies. Remember, you got a [...]

Google Street View has been given approval to drive on the other side of the pond.  Google Street View has received the green light from the U.K.’s privacy watchdog group. Google Street View uses special vehicles with panoramic cameras to photograph full views of the streets. Google Maps then uses the digital images as part [...]

Webcams.travel have solved the issue with Street View panoramic images being slightly delayed and out of date, with their new Webcams.travel layer available in Google Earth and intergrated with Google Maps. The new layer gives users access to over 5,000 geo-webcams across the world, from Switzerland, to Paris and across the Americas.  Google Blogs advise [...]

Today marks the start of one of europe’s favourite summer events: the Tour de France.
Australian’s are often amazed when they hear about the long, steep climbs through french alps or at the blistering speeds of the cyclists as they race through the French countryside.
Since you are likely to be working or sleeping while the event [...]