Google has updated much of the Street View imagery for Australia in Google Maps with “higher quality” photography — check out the enhanced image of Lifehacker HQ for an example. More »
Google actually began incorporating geo-tagged photos into Street View last year, but they’ve now added a new photo-viewing interface for users moving through a Street View tour of well-captured areas. More »
Google’s coverage of Australia via Street View is already pretty solid, but the addition of a trike to cover non-public roads should result in better photography of off-road locations like Taronga Zoo (where the vehicle was launched this morning), and also of walking paths. Google is accepting suggestions on where the trike should map; you’ve got until February 8. [Google Trike suggestions]
Google has updated the real estate listing features it rolled out in July, making it easier to find and to search on multiple criteria. The Google Maps team is also readying to roll out the Street View cars in Australia once again. More »
As many users of Google Street View can attest, repeatedly clicking the forward and backward arrows makes for a less-than-smooth navigation experience. Today Google addressed this issue by introducing a smart navigation feature designed to make exploring Street View easier. More »
The coverage of Google Street View in Australia was already pretty comprehensive when it rolled out last August, but the search giant is continuing to expand its reach. The Google Australia blog says that a recent update has added extra coverage around Port Lincoln, Tweed Heads, Cairns – and a few more areas of a little city called Sydney. Street View is never likely to cover 100% of the population, but compared with many more populous countries, including the US and the UK, Australia seems to be doing pretty well (or pretty badly if you see the whole thing as a horrendous intrusion on privacy).
Expanding Street View in Australia [Google Australia Blog]When Google launched Street View for Australia back in August, the coverage was already pretty comprehensive, but the range continues to expand. Google has just added a bunch of extra photography for Geelong, Darwin and some remote areas of the Northern Territory, and celebrated with a cheesy look at some of the locations for Baz Luhrmann’s oops-it’s-a-flop movie Australia. Google Maps [via Official Google Australia Blog]
Google’s Street View has been pretty successful since it rolled out in Australia in August, but now the Big G has decided it would work even better with an interface tweak, which includes the not entirely intuitive decision to replace the words ‘Street View’ with a draggable icon of a person (‘Pegman’) on the Zoom control, thereby matching the Google Earth experience more closely. Check the video above for an overview. [via Official Google Australia Blog]
Google Maps’ Street View now includes imagery for the streets of France —go ahead and hit the big tourist spots in Paris like the Champs-Élysées and Basilique du Sacré-Cœuror without leaving your desk.
