North Carolina

Street View Update Feb 08

The Google Lat Long blog has announced that Google has just added 12 more US cities to their street view coverage, bringing their total coverage to, um.. lots. The new cities added are as follows: Albany and Schenectady, NY Boise,…

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Thursday, 14th February 2008

Antique WWII warplanes

There are hundreds of different aircraft "in flight" to be seen on Google Earth, waaaaay too many to post them all here on Google Sightseeing1. But every now and then there's a rare sighting that we feel the need to…

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Wednesday, 30th January 2008

Viagra Spam

Despite Google's best efforts, someone has finally managed to spam Google Earth with a Viagra advert! Well I guess it had to happen sooner or later... 😉 Thanks to Mark.

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Tuesday, 12th June 2007

Peace on Earth

You can all rest easy tonight; I've discovered peace on earth! The first bit of peace is found in Watershed Park, a dense woodland near Redmond with trails for cycling, horse riding, etc. A local cyclist took this ground level…

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Friday, 14th April 2006

Wright Brothers National Memorial

The Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk commemorates the first successful powered flight, which was achieved by the two brothers here on December 17th 1903. The straight dirt path going from the main memorial to the NNW leads directly…

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Tuesday, 31st January 2006

Carrier Landing Practice Runway

This is pretty cool. It's a Marine Air Corps runway but they have the outline of an aircraft carrier painted on the runway with little planes and everything. This is obviously for carrier landing training, a wee bit safer than…

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Saturday, 5th November 2005

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