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November 10, 2008
Street View Car Spotted in New Zealand
Over the weekend, GEB reader Mark Crook in Queenstown, New Zealand spotted a Google Street View car and snapped some photos. Google is really burning up the pavement taking photos all over the world. With Street View imagery available in Google Maps and Google Earth beyond the US now in: France, Italy, Spain, Australia, and Japan.
To see Street View imagery in Google Earth, just turn on the Street View layer. Here are some tips on how to use the interface.
Posted by FrankTaylor at November 10, 2008 8:01 AM
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Posted by: Nick Stamoulis at November 10, 2008 11:16 AM
We've known about this since April. http://streetviewstuff.blogspot.com/2008/04/street-view-in-new-zealand-coming-soon.html
Posted by: FlagFreak at November 10, 2008 1:58 PM
I saw a Google Streetview car in Wellington, New Zealand about a year ago. I followed it on my scooter around the city. Can't wait to see the imagery!
Posted by: Pete at November 10, 2008 3:43 PM
Wonderful Photo! It's great to see people photographing the Car instead of it photoing us for once.
Posted by: Jacob at November 10, 2008 9:42 PM
We've seen the everyscape vehicles in NZ also!
Posted by: ZNO at November 11, 2008 1:28 AM
I hope Google starts this service in India too, considering that a sizeable number of their visitors/users are from here.
Posted by: Pragmites at November 11, 2008 2:35 AM
I have seen one in Frankfurt Germany!
Posted by: Silvia at November 11, 2008 4:15 AM
My brother said he has seen one in Bath, UK.
Posted by: Brendan at November 11, 2008 3:45 PM
...and in Aachen, Germany.
Posted by: Christoph at November 12, 2008 3:31 AM
flickr group on googlenettas all over the world: http://www.flickr.com/groups/googlestreetviewcar/
NZ was spotted first Aug. 21st, 2008!!!
Posted by: smokeonit at November 13, 2008 10:39 AM
Sightings outside the U.S.: http://www.flickr.com/groups/googlestreetviewcar/discuss/72157606121546238/
check out the pool map, since most photos have been geotagged;-)
Sightings in the EU were in (Opel Astra all of EU):
Germany:
Berlin (pool)
Bochum (pool)
Bodensee/Lake Constance Region (Südliches/Southern Württemberg, Landstrasse/Rural Highway)
Bonn
Bremen
Köln/Cologne (pool)
Darmstadt
Dortmund (pool)
Duisburg (pool)
Essen
Frankfurt
Gütersloh (pool)
Hamburg (pool)
Heidelberg
Hilden (pool) (near Düsseldorf)
Karlsruhe (pool)
Leipzig (pool)
Ludwigshafen
Mannheim (pool)
München/Munich (pool)
Nürnberg/Nuremberg (pool)
Potsdam
Stuttgart (pool)
Wiesbaden
Worms
France:
Aix en Provence
Burgundy (pool)
La Ciotat, Marseille, Cote d'Azur (pool)
Lille
Lyon
Montbrison, Rhone-Alpes (near St. Etienne) (pool) (driver standing on top of Googlenetta)
Marseille
Montpellier (pool)
Nice (pool)
Paris (pool)
Strasbourg (pool)
Toulon (pool)
Toulouse
Versailles (pool)
UK:
Beeston (pool)
Birmingham (pool)
Bristol (pool)
Brentford (pool)
Bury (pool)
Cardiff (pool)
Catherine-de-Barnes (pool)
Colwick (pool)
Coventry (pool)
Cwmbran, Wales (pool)
Edinburgh (pool)
Exeter, Wales (pool)
Forres, Scotland (pool)
Glasgow (pool)
High Wycomb (pool)
Inverness
Kensington (pool)
Leeds (pool)
Liverpool (pool)
Littleborough (pool)
London/Londres (pool)
Manchester (pool)
Norwich (pool)
Nottingham (pool)
Oxford (pool)
Plymouth
Portishead (pool)
Sheffield (pool) (3 Googlenettas and next to them their respective drivers on the side of the road)
Shepperton
Ullapool
York (pool)
Spain:
Barcelona (pool)
Madrid (pool)
Sevilla (pool)
Valencia (pool)
Italy:
Firenze/Florence (pool)
Milano/Milan/Mailand (pool)
Roma/Rome/Rom (pool)
Torino/Turin) (pool)
Netherlands:
Amsterdam (pool) (one of the Amsterdam photos shows the Google HQ with various Googlenettas getting ready for spain)
Apeldoorn (pool)
Den Haag/The Hague (pool)
Rotterdam (pool)
Zutphen (near Appeldorn) (pool)
Australia (Holden Astra):
Sydney (pool)
Albany
Brisbane (pool)
Kojonup (pool)
Perth
New Zealand (Holden? Astra):
Napier (pool)
Japan (Toyota Prius):
Ashiya (pool)
Kobe
Nagayo (pool)
Okinawa (pool)
Osaka
Sendai
Tokyo (pool)
Mexico (Pontiac G6):
Mexico City (pool)
Singapore (Opel Astra):
Bishan (pool)
Posted by: smokeonit at November 13, 2008 10:41 AM
You realize, of course, that most of these are not actually Google Street View cars, but local paparazzi, private detectives, or intelligence organizations, being creative with their surveillance?
Posted by: mundens at November 17, 2008 6:52 PM
When are they actually going to release the imagery for New Zealand through!
Posted by: André at November 20, 2008 6:26 AM
I saw and photografed aparently the same car on the same day in Milford Sound.
Posted by: Giovani at November 25, 2008 6:16 PM
Don't miss www.driveme.in for street views of Pune city in India.
Posted by: Abhijit at November 25, 2008 8:41 PM
Hehe if you search moonshine road upper hutt new zealand on street view im there =)
Posted by: Sam at December 17, 2008 4:28 PM
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This is great! I wonder when I will see one of the Google cars in Boston?