Tag: Google Street View

  • Google Street View Embedded Image Problems

    NOTE: Seems to be fixed as of October 8, 2010 I noticed that the embedded Google Street View image on my Antarctica post was terribly blurry last week when I created it. I thought perhaps I’d made an error when I copied-and-pasted the code from Google Maps into the page. Usually the images look sharp…

  • Street View Comes to Antarctica

    If you didn’t catch it yet on the Google Lat Long Blog, you may be surprised to learn that Google Street View has now arrived in Antarctica. Now, truth be told, the coverage isn’t extensive. It can be found only on one tiny corner of a place called Half Moon Island. Some may argue, “well…

  • Also Very Northerly

    Let’s get back to the second part of the geography puzzle originally posed by loyal reader Matthias. We will continue to explore the current northernmost reaches of Google Street View. It’s still Deadhorse, Alaska at the very moment I draft this article. However, that will change as Google’s adventurous drivers reach new extremes. The European…

  • Gee Thanks, Street View

    Recently Google Maps changed the script that bloggers can use to embed Street View images within their web pages. Unfortunately the new script is not backwards compatible. I learned this today when I went back to one of my previous articles and saw that the Street View images no longer existed. Instead there was nothing…

  • Throw the Dart

    The previous topic was rather serious. So today I will take a more lighthearted approach. Several years ago there was a reoccurring story on one of the news stations where the reporter would take a dart and throw it at a map of the United States. Then he would travel to the spot and find…

  • Lucky 7 & the Ghost Kid

    It all started with an innocent set of queries captured by my web stats. They seemed to follow a common theme somewhat like “strange boundary five points ma. conn.”[1] The only border anomaly between Massachusetts and Connecticut that I knew anything about was the Southwick Jog, which I featured back in October. Seven is More…

  • Google Street View Comes to Washington, DC Area (finally!)

    I’m about a week late, but I did notice when I went into Google Maps recently that the Washington, DC area has finally been added to Street View. I’d been grousing about it for awhile and thought it might never happen. This was a long time coming. Witnesses spotted the photo car in the District…

  • Google Sightseeing

    It pleased me to learn today that a recent post from Twelve Mile Circle appeared on Google Sightseeing. I’d nominated the Bruny Island Ferry images I found on Google Street View (including one from inside the ferry). They first appeared on my Ferries of Australia post. Then Google Sightseeing used it as part of their…

  • Ferries of Australia

    If I’m featuring another set of ferries then it must mean I’ve completed another national ferry page. Yes, indeed that’s the case. Today I introduce my new Ferries of Australia map (and detailed maps for Sydney and Brisbane). With that, I’ll highlight some of the more interesting routes I’ve uncovered. I hope you have an…