Bernhard posted a way to view Google Maps street maps as transparent images seamlessly overlayed automatically in Google Earth. As you change your view, it reloads a proper zoom level of Google Maps.

More Street View imagery In Google Maps, there's going to be expanded Street View imagery across 80 countries – with some of those countries getting Street View pictures for the first time.

Google Maps' street view function has been a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. Before moving to the UK, it was the single biggest source of information on the new location I'd chosen via ...

Google on Wednesday rolled out a new interface for Earth for mobile, and added Street View too. Meanwhile, Earth and Maps imagery has been spruced up and cleared of clouds to offer even clearer ...

Well, almost everything. On Friday, the company revealed in a blog post that Google Earth now covers more than 98 percent of the world, and has captured 10 million miles of Street View imagery.

The result is impressive. If you have Google Earth installed (I recommend upgrading to Google Earth 5.0), then download Ho’s Taiwan street view and open that file in Google Earth.

Google, with its Ground Truth program, also started building its own maps over the last few years and now uses street signs from its Street View cars and adds this data to its maps and directions.

Speaking to CNET, Google offered these numbers for the very first time. Starting with Street View, Google says that it has mapped over 10 million miles, the equivalent of circling the Earth over ...

One example: The Earth Outreach team has worked with advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund to map methane leaks from underground gas pipes using sensors attached to Google’s Street View cars.

Fast forward from the pre-iPhone days of 2005, and the company has since rolled out Google Earth, Street View—with its collection of mundane, extreme, and just plain weird images—and more.