http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/08/04/streetview_wideweb__470x345,0.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/news/biztech/smile-australia-youre-on-googles-candid-camera/2008/08/04/1217701932020.html

It is already live ;)

No New-Zealand? That sucks

I'm also seeing Street View in Japan.. is that new?

I can see Japan, too... did I miss this news or is it new and unannounced?

(Thanks Nick, I updated the post!)

Glad to see this being rolled out in more places, just waiting for the UK now. :)

Pac-Man, is that you?

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-street-view-japan-pacman.jpg
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=35.676193,139.6982&spn=0.039184,0.077248&t=h&z=14&cbll=35.658868,139.695399&panoid=TLRDU7YfsB9-4KV9kG9_5Q&cbp=1,78.22336390935504,,1,-31.952092712367953

I've caught a Toyota Prius used by Google:
http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&hl=fr&geocode=&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=35.698432,139.737167&spn=0.063151,0.154495&z=13&cbll=35.666825,139.745591&panoid=J7kVEScPY7TfT1l-hTYATQ&cbp=1,202.242520436703,,0,15.923785821080186

That Maboo logo looks like Yahoo's:

http://blogoscoped.com/files/maboo.jpg

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=35.699826,139.706225&spn=0.019586,0.054932&t=h&z=15&cbll=35.690014,139.704273&panoid=m9tOTg0nm4EgsQmeFIB4Tg&cbp=2,255.2439565023205,,0,5.5693464396492

a very funny video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jDYX3TGgTo

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/2733265580_a7c4f457c6_o.png
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3287/2732433573_9b5aeff072_o.png

Now, nobody can't say that Google used Chevrolets or Opels for mapping Japan :
http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/4358/capture1um2.png

http://maps.google.fr/maps?f=q&hl=fr&geocode=&ie=UTF8&layer=xc&ll=34.612372,135.007639&spn=0.032,0.077248&z=14&cbll=34.596369,135.011824&panoid=eDkfKDdXjVc6Rn6J2Ijivw&cbp=1,201.1844194858479,,1,2.911855150597913

Very Cool...Too bad they didn't use the high res camera like in France!

The UK cant be too far behind : I have spotted numerous StreetView cars here in Norwich!

Wow, the Australian coverage is pretty impressive – the Hyden Norseman road is covered, which is basically a dirt track in the middle of nowhere, and you can see the plume of dust behind the card. In Perth the images seem to be a few months old.

StreetAdvisor.com.au is live with what we think is the first implementation of Google StreetView in Australia.

IIRC, Maboo is the widest Internet cafe chain in Tokyo. I still have my card from when I went there. :-)

I wonder why Google Maps doesn't cover South Korea yet. I'm not talking about street view – there seems to be no map data for the whole peninsula. I can't even look up city names. These kind of data can not be restricted, as there are south korean map services like http://maps.naver.com/, which provide detailled information. Is Google Maps facing legal problems in South Korea or does it simply avoid being in competition with map services that are already on a high level of development?

Official post: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/08/more-streets-in-more-places.html

Also:
<< As if that was not enough, we're also extending our coverage in the US with over 30 new cities including New Orleans (LA), Baton Rouge (LA), El Paso (TX), Wichita (KS), Savannah (GA), and Colorado Springs (CO). And to give you even more of a reason to explore Street View, we've hidden a special surprise somewhere in our US imagery so keep your eyes peeled as you take in the views! >>

What do you think the suprise is?

(Added another update...)

A lot of people (Google employees?) are lining up near the Googleplex, is that old or is that the easter egg?

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-street-view-googleplex-people.jpg

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=googleplex,+mountainview&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.047881,79.101563&ie=UTF8&ll=37.461642,-122.077675&spn=0.076577,0.219727&t=h&z=13&layer=c&cbll=37.423227,-122.085424&panoid=st89-KXqWuakt9pL7zt0aA&cbp=2,548.3995639942513,,0,5.593986289581268

That's old, it dates from the original launch of street view.

Oh, that might be new, it's the other side of the campus from where the launch group was, which was 1642 Charleston Rd (approx) and that's now got a proposal – "Marry Me Leslie". http://gadgets.fosfor.se/google-maps-street-view-easter-egg/ has an image from the launch.

LOL, if you move around the street outside the main campus, you see lots of googler's on bikes and then this scene:
http://maps.google.com/maps?cbp=1,354.5488492466226,,1,12.082873182720654&cbll=37.421026,-122.087107&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=37.423037,-122.086505&spn=0.004993,0.00825&z=17&panoid=C9NbFZ6CLVASyimvHn0xlQ

(Added a third update...)

There's at least 2 fight scenes in the pics of the Google Street View on Charleston Road, outside the main street of all of the Google Buildings in Mountain View.

That easter egg type picture is old and I think I have seen this picture on this forum too :)

Juha-Matti did you see the two comments by James above?
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/137276.html#id137357

Juha-Matti : the original easter egg has been removed by Google several weeks ago, and now there is another one.

The great thing with this update is that I'll be able to update my map of Google signs in Google Street View :)
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=101555744172859669534.00000112f37423f782a8b&z=16

Stefan Krämer : its quite possible that's because of the North Korea v South Korea security situation.

you see a similar thing in Israel/Palestine – there's no mapping there either.

fight scene (looks fake...)

http://maps.google.com/maps?cbp=1,355.2570418006433,,1,9.991961414791&cbll=37.421026,-122.087107&layer=c&ie=UTF8&panoid=C9NbFZ6CLVASyimvHn0xlQ&ll=37.422935,-122.086354&spn=0.003826,0.009645&z=17

is this the easter egg?

What I was referring to earlier:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/2735580358_75846f6db7_o.png
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3273/2734747369_ec5ae7bd6d_o.png

The new imagery round the Googleplex looks like it's using the highest resolution we've seen yet on street view.
Anybody agree?

Could this be a test for a new type of camera?

Also, they are obviously not using the face blurring technology on this patch, or the vehicle number plate blurring. Should they have kept this feature on?

Philipp etc.: Yes I did, but too quickly :-(Thanks for sharing, I know the recent state of easter eggs now.

> The new imagery round the Googleplex looks like it's using
> the highest resolution we've seen yet on street view.
> Anybody agree?

In the beginning for San Francisco, they had hi-res imagery all around – look at the zoom slider, which has 4 not 3 marks:
http://blogoscoped.com/files/street-view/2-large.jpg

Right now in places like Tokyo, even though there's 3 marks on the zoom, it doesn't look like a real zoom feature that would increase quality (it just blows up the normal picture, resulting in low quality).