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We're delighted to announce that the Google Sightseeing team now has two new writers! Ian Brown manages a fair trade retail store in Ottawa, Canada, and says he spends his spare time perusing maps to find new routes to ride…

Our friends over at Virtual Globetrotting are currently running a Street View scavenger hunt to find interesting words in the imagery. Prizes for the top 5 competitors in the scavenger hunt is a copy of the 5 star rated classic…

Last week was our our third annual Island Week, and we had another fascinating week! This year even more of you than ever sent in brilliant islands for us, most of which we simply didn't have time to post.1 Here's…

Last week, when we failed to post a new entry one day, we weren't just sitting around barbecuing you know! No, in fact we were writing an article for PC World, the world's largest monthly computer publication! The article went…

Well, it's not exactly the same week as it has been in previous years (in fact this year it's not even during the same month), but nevertheless, the official Third Annual Google Sightseeing Island Week is upon us! In a…

Another month, another image update! Frank at gearthblog.com seems to have been first to spot that there's new imagery in Google Earth, which has now been confirmed on the Latlong Blog. Currently unavailable in Google Maps1, the new imagery includes:…