Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of our first foreign language translations of Google Sightseeing, when we launched Google Sightseeing Français translated by Julien Gremillot, and Google Sightseeing Italiano translated by Alexei Popov. Many congratulations to Julien and Alexe...

This sight is currently only viewable using the Google Earth application. Usually Google Maps is updated a few days after Google Earth, when this sight will be visible in your web browser. In the meantime, all links will launch in Google Earth. Over the weekend Google rolled out another major image ...

This is the very lovely, but otherwise totally normal-looking Place de Terreaux in Lyon, France. Nothing strange about it at all, right? However if you turn on the “show labels” option on Google Maps, it looks a lot like Google have been trying to draw a gigantic GPS penis. Is it possibl...

For a bit of Friday fun, here’s a roundup of our top ten rudest and funniest 1 UK place names on Google Maps. So with no further ado, in reverse order, the winners are… 10. Titty Ho, Northamptonshire 9. Back Passage, City of London 8. Fine Bush Lane, West London 7. Crapstone, Devon 6. Sl...

Have you ever wondered how they get planes clean? Well at Heathrow we can see the plane cleaning crews hard at work, but for some reason it’s the wet outlines of absent planes that are the most interesting. Anyone who has read our book would already know that there’s just one automatic p...

The New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia is the highest road bridge in the Americas and (until Google updates their French imagery), is the tallest road bridge visible on Google Earth. The bridge is a spectacular steel-arch construction which carries Highway 19 at a height of 267 metres over the ...

Here’s a fairly long train travelling through an icy Moldova, eastern Europe. A train is hardly an uncommon sight on Google Earth - but this particular train will travel from one side of Moldova all the way to the other in an incredible two minutes flat. The train has just left neighbouring Ro...

Yesterday, Google announced that they had added some extra cities to Street View, including Memphis, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; and Charleston, South Carolina. What’s even more interesting though, is that this update includes a lot of the places in-between places - highways coast-to-coast...