- Google may reveal revolutionary new Google Maps feature next week Google may reveal a revolutionary new Google Maps feature next week, an invitation-only event referencing "the next dimension of Google Maps" would have you believe.
- Dublin gets an alternative angle with new 45° aerial imagery Google Maps has released an update this week that includes 45° imagery of 26 new cities and locations in Europe and the United States, including Dublin City.
- Oops! Google Ireland fined after Street View car parks illegally Google Ireland has paid a fine of €450 after one of its Street View cars parked illegally on Main Street, Castleisland, Co. Kerry. The internet giant made the contribution to the court "poor box" to avoid a conviction under Ireland's Road Traffic Act.
- Street View arrives in South Korea, 24 new cities worldwide get 45° imagery Google Street View has arrived in South Korea for the first time, with explorable street-level imagery available for Korea's two largest cities; Busan and Seoul.
- Google Earth imagery update helps uncover part of Scotland's hidden heritage The Google Earth and Google Maps team published an imagery update earlier today which, as usual, contains some really interesting sites. Ireland is not featured is this update, but large parts of Scotland and England, among others, are.
- Google releases advance preview imagery update of Bin Laden compound in Abbottābad, Pakistan Google have today released an advanced preview imagery update encompassing parts of Abbottābad, Pakistan where Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden was killed during a co-ordinated and deadly assault by American Navy SEALs and CIA paramilitary forces. The update, which Google describes as "of particular interest", is only available as an advanced preview KML file viewable in Google Earth, and will be included in Google's next scheduled imagery update.
- Google releases imagery update in Google Earth The Google LatLong team have released an imagery update which is available now in Google Earth and Google Maps. The update is extensive and includes high resolution aerial imagery updates for Australia, Japan, Scotland, Wales and the US, and satellite imagery updates for eighty-five countries, including large parts of Ireland.
- Fresh Irish imagery updates in Google Earth Following on with their monthly imagery update cycles, the Google Earth and Google Maps Imagery team have released another high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery update that again includes areas of Ireland, and in particular Derry/Londonderry, Mayo, Meath, Sligo, and Tyrone.
- Armchair archaeologist discovers 2,000 potential archaeological sites using Google Earth Australian archaeologist David Kennedy has discovered 1,977 potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia using Google Earth from the comfort of his office armchair in Perth.
- Ireland receives large satellite imagery update in Google Earth In the past few days Ireland has received yet another high resolution satellite imagery update in Google Earth. This follows similar updates that we reported in November and December of last year.