Earlier today we posted an image of a guy who fell of his bike in Denmark. It looked funny, but also dangerous since a car was driving by at the same time. Turns out he was trying to take a photo of the google car with his cell phone. When he fell of his bike, he didn’t get seriously hurt. He knew someone at google and could tell them what happened.
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Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips on Google StreetView
A couple of days ago we posted an image of some guys taking a bath outdoors. It turns out it is Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips… This is one of surprisingly few celebrity sightings so far on StreetView.
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Mapquest has a new streetview service
The largest map site in the US is called Mapquest. Today they finally got a streetview service. It’s called 360 View. Google StreetView have higher image quality and I think it will be tough for Mapquest to compete with Google.
Swedish Hitta.se has added 20 new cities
Hitta.se has realeased aprox. 20 new cities with streetview type images, all in Sweden. There are now 29 cities available.
New images from Canada, France and Italy
Along with Singapore came new StreetView images today from several new areas in Canada, France and Italy.
Google StreetView coming to Singapore tomorrow
Rumors from Singapore claim that StreetView will be released in Singapore tomorrow. If that’s the case I think Google will also release more countries or areas the same day, as they usually do that.
Google takes new images from Vancouver Olympic games
Google Canada just announced they will cover more of Vancouver and Whistler ahead of the 2010 Winter Games.
Vancouver, 27 November 2009—Next week, Google will boost its Street View imagery of Canada by capturing images of the 2010 Winter Games venues in Vancouver and Whistler, including Canada Hockey Place, the Richmond Olympic Oval, the Olympic Villages, and other Games sites. This will mark the first special collection of Street View imagery in Canada.
Image-capturing will occur in parts of Greater Vancouver and Whistler the week of November 30.
Bing streetview coming soon
A car taking photos for Microsofts Bing Maps images, similar to Google StreetView, has been spotted in Vancouver, Canada today. When Bing will release images is not clear yet, but we hope it’s soon. Since they are now getting images from Vancouver, my guess is that it will be ahead of the winter Olympics in this city. I believe it will have a different name than “streetview” though.
(You can preview a very early version of it here. It was released several years ago, so the final version will surely look much better.)
More images from Holland
You can now see even more images from the Netherlands. Included in todays update are the cities Utrecht, The Hague, Tilburg, Eindhoven, Leiden and Almere.
StreetView Mexico is live!
Mexico today added a couple of cities to the world of Google StreetView.
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