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Google Street View arrives in U.K., Netherlands

Want to stroll the Strand in London without actually getting any exercise? Street View spreads to more a few more parts of Europe.

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Google Maps now shows Trafalgar Square in London among other locations.
Google Maps now shows Trafalgar Square in London among other locations. screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET

Google has brought its driver's-eye view of the world to more parts of Europe, releasing Street View imagery for the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

As with the United States and other countries that have Street View, not all areas are photographed, but major cities have some coverage. Google Blogoscoped had this list of cities: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Coventry, Derby, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Southampton, and York in England; Belfast in Northern Ireland; Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow in Scotland; and Cardiff and Swansea in Wales.

For the virtual tourist, Google Maps Mania has a nice gallery of images, too.

(Via unofficial Google Operating System blog.)