New Imagery in Google Earth (May ’08)

Just over a month since the last update Google have announced new imagery for Google Earth and Google Maps. The full list of what's new is available on Google Lat Long. If you'd like to be kept bang up-to-date with…

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Wednesday, 14th May 2008

Lollapalooza 2007

Lollapalooza is a multi-genre Music festival held each year in Chicago's downtown Grant Park. The 3-day event draws over 35,000 people each day, and for the 2007 festival the special guest was you, the GSS readers. We'll start at the…

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Tuesday, 29th April 2008

New Google Earth 4.3 Released

Yesterday Google released an updated version of Google Earth for PC, Mac or Linux. Google Earth blog has posted a (http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/04/video_demo_of_google_earth_43.html) highlighting some of the new features, which include: Day/Night mode showing the local time sunrise and sunset. Street Views…

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Wednesday, 16th April 2008

Ville de Bordeaux

Ville de Bordeaux is a carrier vessel that has been specially designed to transport various pieces of the Airbus A380 around the globe. Given that the A380 is the largest passenger airliner in the world, it's no surprise that the…

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Monday, 14th April 2008

The Magic Number

It's almost unbelievable (so much so that we missed it by a week), but Google Sightseeing just turned 3 years old! All the way back on the 6th of April 2005 our first post was Disney World, followed closely by…

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Thursday, 10th April 2008

Sea Reclamation

Across the globe there are various land reclamation projects which aim to create new building sites by dredging up the seabed. However, in the small English town of Happisburgh that process is being reversed, as the waves tear apart the…

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Monday, 7th April 2008

Welcome to Google Sightseeing!

Google Sightseeing takes you on a tour of the world as seen from satellite or street views using Google Maps. Our team of authors present weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

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