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Google StreetView comes to Poland
According to local news sources, Google is currently taking photos in Poland for it’s StreetView images.
Initially only the two largest cities will be covered by the panoramic StreetView: Warsaw and Krakow.
More on the snake man
Today The Telegraph writes about the streetview image of a guy walking down the street with a snake we posted here yesterday.
Leon Kidd, 25, who has five snakes, was photographed with his 10ft red-tailed boa Nibblez as he carried her along Clarkson Road in North Earlham, Norwich, last summer.
Nibblez?
– I take her out nearly every day in summer in Earlham Park. A lot of people are surprised, others are curious and ask if they can touch her. She loves being taken out, especially going in the grass.
List of upcoming google streetview countries and cities
Which upcoming region are you most interested in?
Austria – All major cities
Belgium – All places
Canada – All major cities
Czech Republic – Prague
Denmark – Copenhagen, Odense and Århus
Finland – All major cities
France – All places
Germany – All places
Greece – Athens
Hong Kong – All places
Ireland – All major cities
Italy – All places
Japan – All places
Mexico – All major cities
Netherlands – All places
Norway – Oslo, Bergen
Poland – Warsaw, Krakow
Portugal – All major cities
Romania – Bucharest
Singapore – All places
Spain – All places
Sweden – Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö (car seen in Helsingborg and Västerås too)
Switzerland – All major cities
Taiwan – Taipei
United Kingdom – All places
United States – Hawaii
Google StreetView coming to Sweden
According to swedish newspapers Metro and Dagens Nyheter, Google started to cover Sweden today with it’s StreetView cameras. The three largest cities will be covered, the capital Stockholm, Gothenburg (Göteborg) and Malmo (Malmö). It will take a couple of months until the images will be online. Hitta.se already have street view images from Stockholm thanks to Mapjack.
Angry british villagers stop google car
News article (no photos)
Street View coming to Ireland
Kidnapped girl found thanks to Google StreetView
A kidnapped 9-year-old girl was found yesterday thanks to Google StreetView. (more…)
Good news, bad news
The good news:
Along with Google’s Street View update came many new features, including the photoshopping to make the Google car disappear.
The bad news:
Along with this update came the removal of some of the things that made Street View funny sometimes. Things that will no longer be seen in Street View are:
Hi-resolution imagery
People’s faces
Previous Street Views of hi-resolution Street View.
Those things were giving Google lots of trouble, so all imagery is now lower resolution.
New images from Pattaya in Thailand and China
Mapjack have added Pattaya in Thailand to their growing list of cities with street view images. They also have images from San Francisco, Sausalito, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite National Park and Chiang Mai in Thailand.
China have a street view service similar to Google Maps StreetView named City8. It covers 30 cities in China. Unfortunately it’s only available in chinese at the moment but a representative from the company tells StreetViewFun.com that they will soon have an english version.
