Google has just rolled out an upgrade to their controversial mapping service. In the Summer of 2009, a special Google car, equipped with state of the art cameras, roamed around Southend taking pictures of our town.
Those images are now live, and by typing an address into maps.google.co.uk , you’ll be able to see and navigate around to see what the cameras picked up.
If you’ve not used the service before – the trick is to type in a street address or postcode into maps.google.co.uk, then drag the little icon of a person from the controller on the left, and drop the person onto the appropriate street. You’re then in a scrollable view of that street and can move around, pan up, turn around and zoom.
Found anything interesting happening in Southend? Let us know below
This is a great site, We have had the benefit of it in Aus for some time, just to be able to type in an address and zoom in on a street, house, park, for instance my daughter just recently went to Hong Kong I asked her the name of her hotel and was able to see what it was like and where she was staying,believe me you southenders try it its great ps also liked your story about the snow as we dont get any in my part of the world well we do but I have to travel over four hundred miles to see it and to stay in the area at a motel or hotel costs an arm and a leg.
best of luck and I wish you well from Sydney downunder