Street Views

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• Cool Google Street View – Pompeii Ruins

  
  The Squirrel Queen — Authority: 121
  So budget woes have kept you from taking a holiday vacation this year. Same here for the Squirrel Queen. For those of us who spend hours watching the Discovery and History channels, this will be a perfect alternative to that whirlwind trip around the world. Instead of forking over wads of cash to fly your extra bag ...
  20 hours ago

• Rance Tidal Power Plant

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  The world’s first and largest tidal power generation facility is located on the Rance River in north-western France. The estuary of the Rance River sees tides averaging 8 metres between low and high tide, and up to 13.5 metres in extreme conditions. This makes it an ideal location for tidal power – a ...
  21 hours ago

• Street View Public Vote: UK Results

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  Over the past few days, Google have added a huge amount of new Street View content, covering many places in Singapore and Canada . Google have also included a whole raft of new imagery captured by the Street View Trike , covering many popular tourist attractions in the US, as well as several UNESCO World ...
  2 days ago

• Street View Singapore

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  The island city-state of Singapore has become the first city in Southeast Asia to be photographed and added to Google’s ever-growing street view database. The camera car passed through earlier this year and snapped some stunning shots of Singapore’s most famous landmarks. Attractions like the Raffles Hotel and ...
  1 week ago

• New York’s Windows to the Past

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  Ah, New York City… it can easily be thought of as one of the busiest, most congested places on the planet. Its miles and miles of blacktop are usually covered with thousands of people shuffling furiously from one place to the next. On GSS’s last visit, we came across this poor kid who seemed to buckle under ...
  1 week ago

• Belfast’s Other Murals

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  Belfast is well known for its many murals representing differing political and religious views of the city’s communities. However in recent years, thanks to the Good Friday Agreement , there has been a move away from the political murals to more community-based murals, and in this post we shall deal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Before and After: Greensburg, Kansas

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  If you ever need reminded of just how powerful Mother Nature can be, look no further than the city of Greensburg, Kansas . A small community in the heart of the United States, Greensburg has had its share of severe conditions over the years. Now, thanks to the differing image capture dates, we’re able to see a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Street views taken to high court by Swiss data protection watchdog

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 598
  Google Street View in English: no luck, but try the French version Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Google Street View is being taken to the Swiss administrative high court in Bellinzona, Ticino, by Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner Hanspeter Thuer, after weeks of discussions have failed to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Calatrava’s Buildings

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  Continuing our exploration of the work of Santiago Calatrava , we visit some of his more notable buildings, beginning with an in-depth look at the magnificent Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències – the City of Arts and Sciences in his home town of Valencia. With construction ongoing since 1996, the complex ...
  4 weeks ago

• Streetview arrives in Mexico, Hawaii, updates in Netherlands, Spain

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  Another month, another absolutely massive Street View update. The big news is that Google has launched a wealth of imagery for previously uncovered Mexico; but they’ve also added imagery to Hawaii for the first time, added many new places in the Netherlands, and also provided brand new coverage for huge areas of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Calatrava’s Bridges

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  Santiago Calatrava is a renowned Spanish architect whose work we’ve admired in the past on Google Sightseeing. We’re going to take a more in-depth look at his innovative work in two areas, beginning today with bridges. One of Calatrava’s earliest bridge commissions helped cement his international reputation ...
  5 weeks ago

• Millennium Dome / The O2

  
  Google Sightseeing — Authority: 417
  The Millennium Dome was an exhibition centre built in London to celebrate the first year of the new millennium 1 . It has since been converted into the O2 entertainment complex. Whatever the name, we’re very impressed with the shadows cast by the twelve 100m tall pylons, which are intended to represent a ...
  5 weeks ago

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