Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World

draevil writes "Google has hugely expanded the areas of the world that it covers with satellite imagery. Egypt, Iraq, mainland Europe and the UK have all now got satellite coverage to a lesser or greater degree. Slashdotters can now go see sights like Buckingham Palace or the Arc de Triomphe from the comfort of their own swivelchairs. Iraq in particular seems to have a large number of high-zoom areas. I just looked up the Baghdad Parade Grounds where Saddam used to take the salute and other towns like Fallujah are also there. Finding landmarks without the map content is a little harder, so what can the Slashdot crowd find?"

Comments

First to find....

[Mister Impressive]

First to find the weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq) wins 2 cookies and a free can of soda redeemable at the cafetorium!

Re:Firefox problems?

[nokilli]

I just get a big grey box

Must have typed in Madonna. Don't do that.

Re:Pictures of the Oslo/Norway isnt' too good.

[Solder Fumes]

Some of it is low quality, and some of it is covered with clouds and shadows on the ground .. and some of it is taken from ridiculous angels, making everything look funny. :)

"Michael! Every shot in this roll of film has your finger in it!"

Re:Hey...

[Lefty2446]

Duh! Look past the monitor!

Adrian

some more interesing objects

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Eiffel Tower
St. Peter in Rome
Florence, Duomo

Water reservoirs in Sahara.

Creter of Vesuvius

I 'found' all the Unesco World Heritage Sites

[btempleton]

Odd coincidence, just today I put up a set of pages derived from a database of the coordinates of all 788 of the Unesco World Heirtage sites, which includes many interesting landmarks.

Here is the page of Google Maps for World Heritage Sites, and there is also a blog entry for comments and corrections. Many can be zoomed in on. Enjoy.