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Live Occupy London Camp Live Virtual Tour at St Pauls Cathedral in London

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:40:38 +0000

Enjoy viewing this live virtual panorama tour overlooking the Occupy London Camp at St Pauls Cathedral in the heart of the City of London – the capital city of England

Unfortunately Camvista don’t have a live streaming London webcam overlooking the Occupy London Camp at St Pauls Cathedral in the heart of the City of London but this live panoram virtual tour shows a good view overlooking the Occupy London Camp at St Pauls Cathedral

This live Virtual camera tour was taken from the St Paul’s Cathedral plaza in front of St Paul’s Cathredal and the Occupy London tent village on 17th November 2011. At this time, the St Paul’s Churchyard area in front of the St Paul’s cathedral was full of the tent village of the Occupy London campaign, this being the closest they could get to the London Stock Exchange which is found just north of St Paul’s. On the floor, visible in this live panorama view, was a large Monopoly board with a boot on it, symbolic of the Occupy London protest.

Check out live streaming HD video streaming webcams around London - HERE – View the live streaming Traflagar Square web camin the heart of London – HERE View this stunning real-time video streaming London webcameraoverlooking the River Thames - HERE

View live London Street map views at well known and popular tourist locations around London – HERE

Watch the REAL Santa LIVE by the Father Christmas webcam in the North Pole, Lapland

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:04:02 +0000

So YOU don’t really believe in Santa Claus? If so, you’re really going to look silly when YOU view the live Santa Claus webcams in the North Pole, Lapland. Ho Ho Ho

One of the Santa streaming cams is located inside Santas toy workshop in the North Pole, Lapland. Watch Santa LIVE with his elves and friends as Santa goes about his normal daily activities. Watch as Santa Claus waves to all the Santa webcam visitors watching him via his very popular Santa cam

The other Father Christmas streaming video web cam is overlooking the secret location where Santa lives in the North Pole in Lapland, Finland. Check out the weather in the North Pole in Lapland as well as trying to see the world’s most famous and popular reindeer – Rudolph the red-nose reindeer. One thing for sure, global warming hasn’t so far started in Lapland!!! Still lots and lots of snow for Santa and his reindeer to enjoy.

Enjoy watching Father Christmas, alias Santa, via this live streaming Santa webcam preparing for his amazing Santa trip around the globe delivering Christmas presents to all the good boys and girls around the world in the early hours of Christmas Day morning – when all the good children are sleeping in their beds

Not long now till Father Christmas will ride his Santa Sleigh pulled by Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer on Friday 25th December 2009. Keep checking the live Santa web cameras on the exciting build up to Christmas 2009

The Two live Santa web cams are kindly provided by Santaclauslive.com For more info about Santa and his elves visit Santaclauslive.com – HERE

All the team at Camvista wish all our visitors a VERY Merry Christmas.

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Top 10 funny and unusual UK Google street view sightings for May 2009

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:45:49 +0000

Enjoy our selection of the Top 10 funny, unusual, and even weird live Google street view sightings that have been detected around the UK and Ireland since the recent launch of Google Maps – Google street view.

We’ll be nominating, every month, what we feel are the Top 10 funny, unusual, weird and some even bizarre google street view sightings that have been filmed by the fleet of Google street view cars, and Google bikes, as they filmed 360 degress panoramic street level images for their highly popular Google Maps. around the roads and streets of cities and towns around the UK and Northern Ireland

Enjoy our Top 10 UK and Northern Ireland google street view sightings for May 2009

Number - 10 Refuse Collector throwing the rubbish on the streets of Bristol in England

Watch this refuse collector throw about the tools of his trade on a street in Bristol, England. He might get a job with the English cricket team

Number – 9 Snake charmer on a street in Norwich, England

If you have a phobia about snakes, then don’t view this unusual and funny google street view on a street in Norwich. If you like viewing snakes, the reptile type, then view this snake charmer walking a street in Norwich, England

Number – 8 Love message written on a t shirt on Camden High street in London, England

This young lady was expressing herself by sending out a romantic messages on her t shirt while out for a walk on Camden High street in London. Think she was looking for a kiss while out for a stroll on Camden High street.

Number – 7 The Toon army official season ticket office in Newcastle

Looking for a football season ticket to watch Newcastle United football team for the 2009/2010 football season? If so, then make sure that you purchase your Toon football season ticket from this official vendor

Number – 6 Don’t try to tackle this 4 wheeled bull by its horns

Thought bulls has four legs!! Not four wheels They obviously do in Hammersmith in London. This four wheeled bull will be a good match for any Spanish Matador!! Might give the matador a fright when it peeps its horn!!

Number – 5 Think I’ll now stick to walking the streets in Aberdeen

This youngster from Aberdeen in Scotland hasn’t quite mastered the skills and requirements for roller skating. Maybe the google street view peeped it’s horn and gave him such a fright while out filming google street view map images in the Granite city – Aberdeen.

Number – 4 Thank goodness it wasn’t windy when Google was filming this street view image in Edinburgh

Thank goodness google street view doesn’t feature audio with its 360 degrees street level images for Google maps!! Doesn’t look that this Edinburgh bagpiper was making much money on the day of google street view filming on the streets of Scotland’s capital city – Edinburgh. At least the weather wasn’t windy. Google would have to do some blurring under this Scotsman’s kilt if it was windy!!

Number – 3 Sherlock Holmes on a street in Cambridge waving to a Google street view car

I say Doctor Watson. What’s that funny little car with nine cameras on its roof? It’s a Google street view car, Sherlock Holmes, filming in Cambridge for Google maps. Better give the Google driver a wave, says Sherlock Holmes. Might need some picture evidence from Google street view in the future.

Number – 2 Give us a big kiss for Google street view. Keep both of yiur feet on the ground

This young couple on a street in Coventry, England, love expressing their desires for each other in public. Is this a new kissing position that the locals in Coventry enjoy? If they eventually get married, let’s hope that the wedding pics will be taken by a Google street view photographer. Try to keep both feet on the ground in future!!

Number – 1 Our May 2009 TOP funny Google street view sighting is: Aliens having a stroll along Tottenham Court road in London

Bet the Google street view car driver thought he was filming on a different planet when he came across these Aliens strolling along Tottenham Court road in London. Hopefully the Aliens eventually found their Starship Enterprise. And didn’t have their space ship clamped when parking in London!!

Funny, unusual or slightly weird Google street view sightings

admin — Mon, 11 May 2009 10:35:28 +0000

The Google street view map photographs on the highly popular Google maps has fairly caught the imagination of many millions of web visitors. Now online visitors can take a virtual walk through many cities and towns around the globe from the comfort of their computer or mobile phone. Pan, tilt and zoom on Google street view 360 degree high quality street level map imagery Exploring some of the biggest cities and towns around the USA, Europe and Australia and New Zealand. Allowing online visitors to search and find famous landmarks, visitor attractions, shops, restaurants, parks and hotels and bars. Enjoying a virtual tour by viewing live 360 degrees street level map images

Google street view was filmed by a fleet of Google street view cars. Covering as many roads and streets in the cities and towns that currently feature on Google street view maps. Many thousands of miles have been covered by the Google street view cars that have nine high quality directional cameras on the car roofs, hence the reason Google street view can give 360 degrees street level views on Google Maps. Sometimes Google bikes were deployed to film Google street view images, along narrow streets and lanes, that couldn’t be accessed by a Google street view car

Quite often, when the fleet of Google street view cars are filming live along the roads and streets of the cities and towns that they are covering for Google street view, some funny, or unusual, or even slightly weird events are often caught by the google street view cameras. And then loaded up onto Google street view maps for everyone to see and view on Google Maps.

We’ve now launched a new Google street view sighting section to feature some of the funny, or unusual, and some slightly weird Google street views that have been detected by the fleet of Google street view cars, and bikes, on their journeys along the streets and roads in the USA, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Check out our new Funny Sightings Google Street View Section – HERE Enjoy viewing a selection of live Google street view sightings that have been filmed and available to be viewed on Google Maps. Some are really funny, very unusual, quite hilarious, and even weird and wacky. Enjoy viewing our selection of funny, weird, unusual Google street map view images on our Funny Sightings Google Street View Section – HERE

If you’re looking for funny, weird and unusual Google street view sightings around the USA – then visit our Funny Google Street View Sightings USA section – HERE. View funny Google street views sightings in Florida – California – Las Vegas.

Google Maps have just recently launched Google street level in many cities and towns around the UK. Check out unusual, funny or even slight weird live Google street view sightings in our new UK Funny Google Street View Live Sightings Section - HERE

Check out our new Unusual Google Street View Sighting France Section – HERE If you’re looking for some funny Google street views around Paris, then visit our Paris Google Street View Sightings Section - HERE

We’ll be now adding many more funny, unusual and weird Google street view sightings on our Funny Sightings Google Street View Section. So keep checking out this new Google Street View Section on at least a weekly basis

Google launches UK Street View 360-degree google maps online

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:44:39 +0000

Google have finally managed to launch their much awaited UK Street View 3D images onto their very popular Google Maps section in the UK Currently UK Google maps is only displaying Street View mapping content on Google maps from the UK’s 4 capital cities plus 21 major cities in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England.

The internet giant has spent almost a year filming and collecting millions of 3D images from the north of Scotland, to the south of England with fleets of specially modified cars trawling along thousands of miles of roads in Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland snapping high defination pictures for the UK version of Street View on Google maps. Allowing Internet visitors around the globe to enjoy a `virtual walk` via Google Street View on Google maps

Officially lauinched on Thursday 19th March 2009 the UK version of Street View features 3D photographic content from 25 cities in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Google are expected to drip feed more Street View mapping content from other cities, towns and villages around the UK that they’ve already filmed, in the near future.

Currently the 25 cities that you can take a `virtual tour` courtesy of Street View on Google maps are – London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds, Bradford, Cambridge, Oxford, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Bristol, Coventry, Aberdeen, Swansea, York, Newcastle, Dundee, Southampton, Norwich, and Scunthorpe

Top 15 London Street Map Panoramic Views

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:27:00 +0000

Now you can have a virtual walkabout London’s iconic roads and streets – from the comfort of your computer seat.

Mapping company, Seety, have just completed and launched their London street level view mapping solution covering the Capital city. Click your way around the London looking in every direction admiring well known beautiful panoramic views. The street level views cover some of the most iconic London attractions from famous landmarks, streets, roads and bridges, red double decker buses, and historic buildings. Enjoy people watching as you have a virtual drive or walk around one of the world’s most popular cities.

We’ve selected a list of Top 15 London street map panoramic views for you to see on your walk around central London. Don’t get run over by a London red double decker bus!

15 Chinatown in the heart of Soho, London
	If you enjoy eating Chinese food, and visiting London, make sure that you visit Chinatown in the Soho area of London. Many Chinese restaurants and shops selling all sorts of Chinese products are located in London’s Chinatown. Enjoy a virtual walk around London’s Chinatown area – HERE .
14 Regent street map view in London
	Regent street is one of London’s most famous and popular shopping streets. Enjoy a virtual walk or drive up London’s Regent street. No need to spend any money on your panoramic street level tour!! Enjoy your virtual shopping trip up London’s Regent street – HERE.
13 Downing steeet level map view
	The number 13 can be unlucky for some people. So can the number 10!! Take a virtual walk up to the security gates at Downing street in Whitehall, London. To take a virtual walk up to the gates of Downing street in London visit HERE
12 Tower of London street level map view in London
	It’s much safer in the 21st century to visit the Tower of London. You won’t get your head chopped off or locked in the Tower of London!! Have a virtual walkabout London’s famous castle, the Tower of London – HERE.
11 Royal Albert Hall London street map view
	If you’re wanting to attend a show in London, check out what’s on at the Royal Albert Hall. Enjoy your virtual visit to the Royal Alvert Hall in the Kniightsbridge area of London. Planning to visit the Royal Albert Hall? If so, get your bearings by having a stroll up to the Royal Albert’s Hall entrance – HERE.
10 The Beatles Abbey Road zebra crossing street map view
	Enjoy your virtual London walkabout tour to the world’s most famous pedestrian crossing – The Abbey Road zebra crossing. Made famous by it’s appearance on the Beatle’s Abbey Road record album. Enjoy a virtual walk over the world famous Abbey Road zebra crossing in London – HERE
9 Oxford street live street map view in London
	Have a virtual stroll along Europe’s largest shopping street – Oxford street. Make sure that you look left, right and left again when crossing the busy Oxford street. Don’t get knocked over by a London red double decker bus on your Oxford street shopping trip!! Enjoy your virtual shopping trip on London’s most popular shopping street, Oxford street – HERE
8 Covent Garden street level map view in London
	Enjoy your virtual walk around London’s Covent Garden area. Visit shops, bars, restaurants and market stalls that make Covent Garden such a popular place to visit. To enjoy a virtual trip to London’s Covent Garden area visit – HERE
7 Old Compton street map views in London’s Soho district
	Enjoy a brisk walk down Old Compton street in the heart of London’s Soho district. Don’t stop too long outside a adult sex shop!! Lots of nice restaurants, bars and cafes to visit in this Soho area of London. Use your computer cursor to walk along Soho’s Old Compton street in London – HERE
6 Waterloo station street map view in London
	Are you always in a hurry trying to get to Waterloo station? If so, sit back on your computer seat, relax, and enjoy a hassle free street map tour around the UK’s busiest railway station. Enjoy a virtual tour outside the UK’s busiest railway station, Waterloo, in London HERE
5 Houses of Parliament street map views in Westminster, London
	Click your way around the Houses of Parliament in the Westminster area of London. Take a virtual tour outside the House of Commons and the House of Lords. To enjoy a virtual tour of the Houses of Parliament in London go HERE
4 Piccadilly Circus live street map views in London’s West End
	Enjoy a virtual tour of London’s Piccadilly Circus in the heart of the capital city West End. Use your curser to have a virtual walk around London’s Piccadilly Circus – HERE
3 The London Eye and County Hall street map views in London
	Enjoy a virtual walkabout on the banks of the River Thames to view the London Eye and County Hall. To enjoy a walkabout in central London to view the London Eye and County Hall visit – HERE
2 Leicester Square live street level views in London’s West End
	If you’re planning a visit to London, make sure that you catch the hustle and bustle at Leicester Square in the heart of the Capital city. To enjoy a virtual walk around the West End theatres and cinemas at Leicester Square in London visit – HERE
Number 1 London street map panoramic view – Buckingham Palace on the Mall
	Imagine that you’re sitting in a ceremonial carriage to drive up the Mall for a Royal audience with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11 of Great Britain. Enjoy your short journey up the Mall to the gates of Buckingham Palace. To enjoy your virtual horse carriage trip up the Mall to the gates 0f Buckingham Palace visit HERE

London street level views beats Google street view to London

London street level views beats Google street view to London

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:05:22 +0000

Hopefully not long now till Google launch their much anticipated Google street view mapping imagery in the UK. For months, the Google street view cars have been spotted all over the UK filming streets all over England, Scotland and Wales. Reported rumours have been saying that Google will be launching their much awaited street view mapping imagery before the end of 2008.

However, a small innovative Italian mapping company, Seety, who recently set up a London office, have beaten Google Street View by being the first company to launch a Street Level View mapping solution, online, for a UK city – London. Well done to Seety for beating the biggest player in the mapping imagery market, Google, for the the most pestigous city in the Uk, and Europe, London.

What great London street level views Seety are now providing online. No excuse to now get lost when walking the streets in London!!! Just log onto their London street level view website, before you start walking the streets in London, or driving in your car or vehicle, around London, and sit infront of your computer screen, and have a `virtual` trip of your proposed journey. Thanks to Seety. And you don’t even have to pay for using their London street level views.

Check out the London street level map views HERE

Top 15 London Street Map Panoramic Views

Google Street View car spotted in Edinburgh, Scotland

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:44:30 +0000

We’ve been getting lots of sightings, by Camvista snoopers, of the current locations that the fleet of Google Street View cars are currently filming around the UK. A BIG thank you to all our Camvista snoopers who are kindly reporting their sightings around the UK and keeping us all fully informed on the progress that Google are making with their new Street View photo-mapping tool.

Today, Friday 15th September, a Google Street View car was spotted at 10.20 am on the main Edinburgh road – Queensferry Road. The Google car wasn’t filming as all the camera equipment, on the roof of the car, was fully covered over. The Google car was in a big hurry, as it nearly drove through red lights on Queensferry Road. Must have been in a hurry to drop of the passengers at Princes street for some Friday morning shopping!!

Still no definate date from Google when they will be launching Street View in the UK. Street View is currently available only for certain locations in the US, France, Italy, Australia and Japan. Word on the street is that Google still hopes to launch Street View in the UK by the end of this year – 2008. From all the Street View Google car sightings that we’ve received, it would appear that many cities and towns throughout the UK will be featured on their new Street View photo-mapping tool.

UK Sightings for Street View Cars in the UK

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:31:30 +0000

July 2008 has been a very busy month for Google’s Street View cars zooming around many cities and towns in the UK. There has been many sightings of the Google VW cars, with six hi spec cameras on their roofs, filming 360 degrees panoramic street-level views for Google Maps, about to be launched Street View application for the UK Google Maps. Let’s hope Google has enough dollars in their Bank to pay the high fuel costs in the UK. By all accounts, their pool of Street View cars, in the UK, are fairly upping their milage, in the streets of many UK cities, and towns, in order to launch Street View in the UK by Autumn 2008.

So far, to our knowledge, Google Street View cars have been recently spotted driving the streets in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Belfast, Cardiff, Birmingham, Glasgow, Norwich, Oxford, Nottingham, Bristol, Plymouth, Coventry. Google’s fuel budget, must be doing well with the strength of the Dollar, as some of their Street View VW cars have been spotted as far North as Inverness and Ullapool in Scotland.

We’re busy checking all our UK webcams, to try and spot where the Street View Google cars are busy driving to. So far from our `Hunt the Loch Ness webcam,` overlooking Loch Ness, Nessie hasn’t been joined in the Loch by one of the Street View cars. Hope the Google drivers remember what side of road to drive on, so they don’t end up in the bottom of Loch Ness with Nessie. Wonder who would be the most scared!! We’re even trying to spot the Google cars, filming Street View, on our popular Hunt the Haggis webcam site. No feedback from any Haggis spotting a VW Google car with 360 degrees panoramic camreras on their roof. Mind you, it’s the Haggis mating season just now in July. Not enough time to look for Google stickered cars.

If you spot a VW car, with a Google sticker on the window, and with some cameras stuck to the roof, filming for Street View, please let us know what town or city you saw it driving around? Would be great not having to watch all our webcams, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Want a small break for my summer holidays.

Before you get flashed, for Google Street View, try to flash the Google VW Street View car, not literally, but with a camera or your mobile phone, and send us a pic of the sighting. We get lots of sightings of the Loch Ness monster everyday, from our Lochness webcam visitors, so it will be nice to see some genuine sightings of the Street View cars. After all my favourite television programme is `Top Gear.`

Who knows, we give out prizes for our Hunting Haggis, during the Haggis Hunting season, every year at HaggisHunt.com, so we might start giving out some prizes for visitors snapping pictures of the Google VW cars zooming around cities and towns in Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. Give us your thoughts on some sort of prizes that we could give out? Maybe we could commission Matchbox to make toy replicca car of the Google Street view car? That would be a really exciting prize to win. No worry about affording road tax or high fuel prices!!

If you spot a Street View car, anywhere in the UK, please give us your feedback on the location? Also,, if you’re able to take a pic, of the Google VW car, driving past you, please forward the picture. Please give us your feedback, by filling in the below comment box, or give us your feedback or info about your pic by contacting us HERE.

Tour de France Street Views on Google Maps

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:00:03 +0000

The 2008 Tour de France, the world’s largest cycle race, 23-day, 21 stage bicycle race, reaches it’s climax on Sunday 27th July 2008, as the cyclists complete the 3,500 kilometres 2008 Tour de France and finish the final day stage in Paris, when they reach the finish line on the Champs Elysees.

This year, Tour de France fans and race cycling supporters, around the world, have been able to enjoy a more online interactive experience of the world’s most famous cycle race, thanks to Google launching their new Steet View 360 degrees panoramic street-level views of the exact route for the 2008 Tour de France. Thanks to the new Google Map application, Street View.

Online visitors, can follow the exact route, all 3,500 kilometres, that the Tour de France cyclists have had to complete over the 23-day race. Sit back, relax, infront of your computer, and by moving your computer mouse, you will be able to complete the 2008 Tour de France, without having to build up a sweat. Thanks to Street View on Google Maps.

To view the Tour de France 2008 cycle race route, on Street View, via Google Maps, peddle your computer mouse to this Street View link HERE

To learn how to operate Street View, Google’s 360 degrees panoramic street level views, view this Street View instruction video HERE

For all the latest news and results for the 2008 Tour de France visit the official Tour de France website HERE

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