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Street View Car Spotted in New Zealand

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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  3. Pete says

    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

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

  11. smokeonit says

    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

    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?



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