My Google Map Blog

Google has rolled out a rather substantial Street View update this morning, covering hundreds of towns in Israel and updating various other cities across the world.

Some of the highlights include the Sea of Galilee, the Western Wall and the Bet She'an National Park. GEB reader 'Munden' also spotted fresh imagery in parts of Maryland and Virginia in the United States, and there's likely other areas out there as well.

Remember that you can access all of this great Street View imagery from directly within Google Earth. Here's a video that shows some tips and tricks on how to do that:

For more about this update you can read this post on the Google Lat Long Blog or see a bit more coverage over on Google Maps Mania.

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What’s going on inside this french sport store named Krakatoa?

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same girl:

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As you may remember we posted an image of a donkey lying on the road in Botswana recently (December 1st). It looked like the donkey had been hit by the google Street View car. But we concluded that google was not guilty.

This incident caught the medias attention over the last 24 hours where some in the media were not convinced by google denying it had hit the donkey. The donkey images and StreetViewFun.com has been mentioned in news stories around the world, for instance in one of the largest newspapers in Germany, Der Spiegel.

Google today also released even more convincing images to prove they did not hit the donkey. From these images it is clear that the donkey is taking a dust bath in the road. It then moves away when google comes close. In Botswana cars drive on the left side of the road.

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