Posts tagged with: maps · Colin Seymour

Water is Plentiful in the Northern Cape According to Google Maps

· 21 Sep '11 ·

I was perusing Google maps the other day and I happened to notice that Google's impressive knowledge is either several million years out of date, or they're so far advanced they're already predicting future, when it comes to the street map view of South Africa on Google Maps...

Notice the Northern Cape, the huge empty area above the Karoo National Park?…

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Google Streetview Man Plays the Vuvuzela

· 21 Jun '10 ·

Check it out, if you drop to Streetview anywhere in South Africa on Google Maps, the little Streetview man is playing a vuvuzela...

Click image for a zoomed in view

These Google peeps really do think of everything.

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Google Street View Goes Inside the World Cup Stadiums

· 10 Jun '10 ·

Just in time for the World Cup, Google have added Google Street View to the maps of South Africa. Now you can mozy around South Africa from the comfort of your own home, any where in the world.

Not only that, they also sent the man on his bicycle into some of the stadiums so you can get a good look…

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Where's Wally in The UK?

· 20 Mar '09 ·

Google have just updated the Street View functionality of their Google Maps to include street level views of 25 of Britain's towns and cities, and at the same time threw out the challenge of finding Wally.

Found him...

If you're curious, he's on Putney High Street, not too far from Chakalaka (on Street Map)

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Google Adds Transit Layer to Google Maps

· 15 Jan '09 ·

The other day Google added another cool and useful feature to their Google Maps: they've added a "transit" (trains only at the mo) layer for several cities, including London, Cape Town and Jo'burg - yes, I was surprised about the last two too.

Whilst the Cape Town and Jo'burg maps aren't likely to be of much use to most people, the…

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Flash Your Googles

· 23 May '08 ·

If you happen to be walking down the road and notice an average looking car approaching with some sort of strange looking device strapped to it's roof, much like this one or one of these, be sure to "Flash Your Googles" as this enterprising lass in Illinois did.

Please get your timing right though - there's no point having Google obtaining…

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Freaky

· 15 Aug '05 ·

In an effort to find some South African blogs, I stumbled upon a very good one - Jo'blog. Well, I've got a lot of catching up to do as these guys blog like it's going out of fashion. This morning, I was trawling through their archives and stumbled upon One Find Day at the Office.... This has a Google Map …

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