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Street View Car Spotted in New Zealand

November 10, 2008

Street View car in New ZealandOver 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.

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Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank completed a 5.5 year circumnavigation of the earth by sailboat in June 2015 which you can read about at Tahina Expedition, and is a licensed pilot, backpacker, diver, and photographer.

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  1. Nick Stamoulis says

    November 10, 2008 at 11:16 am

    This is great! I wonder when I will see one of the Google cars in Boston?

  2. FlagFreak says

    November 10, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    We’ve known about this since April. http://streetviewstuff.blogspot.com/2008/04/street-view-in-new-zealand-coming-soon.html

  3. Pete says

    November 10, 2008 at 3:43 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!

  4. Jacob says

    November 10, 2008 at 9:42 pm

    Wonderful Photo! It’s great to see people photographing the Car instead of it photoing us for once.

  5. ZNO says

    November 11, 2008 at 1:28 am

    We’ve seen the everyscape vehicles in NZ also!

  6. Pragmites says

    November 11, 2008 at 2:35 am

    I hope Google starts this service in India too, considering that a sizeable number of their visitors/users are from here.

  7. Silvia says

    November 11, 2008 at 4:15 am

    I have seen one in Frankfurt Germany!

  8. Brendan says

    November 11, 2008 at 3:45 pm

    My brother said he has seen one in Bath, UK.

  9. Christoph says

    November 12, 2008 at 3:31 am

    …and in Aachen, Germany.

  10. smokeonit says

    November 13, 2008 at 10:39 am

    flickr group on googlenettas all over the world: http://www.flickr.com/groups/googlestreetviewcar/
    NZ was spotted first Aug. 21st, 2008!!!

  11. smokeonit says

    November 13, 2008 at 10:41 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)

  12. mundens says

    November 17, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    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?

  13. André says

    November 20, 2008 at 6:26 am

    When are they actually going to release the imagery for New Zealand through!

  14. Giovani says

    November 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    I saw and photografed aparently the same car on the same day in Milford Sound.

  15. Abhijit says

    November 25, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    Don’t miss http://www.driveme.in for street views of Pune city in India.

  16. Sam says

    December 17, 2008 at 4:28 pm

    Hehe if you search moonshine road upper hutt new zealand on street view im there =)

  17. Air Intake Systems says

    July 28, 2010 at 11:11 am

    wow, it’s great, but only if it doesn’t stolen the private data through the wifi points, like they did in Germany last year.



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