It’s finally here, Google Street View South Africa is LIVE ! Little over 9 months ago, on 1 September 2009, Google announced it was collecting data to launch Street View in South Africa, using specialized cameras mounted on top of a fleet of Toyota Prius cars. As the cars drive down the street, the camera [...]
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September 1st, 2009
Google Street View Coming to South Africa!
Google Street View is coming to South Africa. The plan seems to be for Google to launch Google Street View covering the whole of South Africa before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Unconfirmed reports have been going around that Street View photographers cars have been seen driving around South Africa.
Google Street View is [...]
November 30th, 2008
360 Degree Photos in Google Earth
Exciting stuff has been happening in Google Earth, particularly with the new layer in Google Earth. The layer is called “360 cities” and can be found under the gallery layer in Google Earth. Switch on the “360 cities” layer in Google Earth, and zoom in to South Africa.
Some great areas to zoom in on and [...]
Posted in 360 degree photo, virtual tour 
Tags: 360 degree photo, google earth, John Gore, virtual tour 
No Comments »November 17th, 2007
Google Earth maps and satellite photos
Google Earth is a free application provided by the lovely people over at Google (you know, the search engine). It is basically a satellite imagery application, that offers amazing hi-res images of our earth. You can zoom right down to your home with extraordinary quality!
