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Street View Spreads To Denmark, Sweden

Doug Caverly — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:22:57 +0000

Google Street View has taken in a couple more countries. Today, coverage of Denmark and Sweden was introduced, and there are new photos of many especially interesting places in England, Northern Ireland, Wales, and other areas, as well.

The pics of Denmark and Sweden are more or less standard Street View fare – high-resolution shots (with license plates and people’s faces blurred) captured throughout the countries by some cars driving along main roads. You can see things like Hans Christian Anderson’s home and Copenhagen Town Hall (below) as a result.

The photos documenting the other countries are more unique. As Google London’s Laura Scott explained on the LatLong Blog, they were taken from Street View Trikes, and "[t]hanks to the National Trust – a charity with a love for preserving historic places and spaces across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – our Trike riders were given access to a whole host of beautiful places . . . . [T]hey pedalled around a collection of the National Trust’s iconic castles, country houses and outstanding landscapes . . ."

Elsewhere in the world, the Trikes toured the San Diego Zoo, Penn State, Busch Gardens, Sesame Place, Water Country USA, and parts of Italy and Taiwan.

This should be a fun update for Street View fans. Let’s just hope Google doesn’t get hit by any more legal challenges as a result.

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Google Launches Climate Change Platform With Denmark

Mike Sachoff — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:10:04 +0000

Google has announced it has partnered with the Danish government to launch an online platform focused on climate change.

The move comes ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in December hosted by the Danish government.

The goal of the platform is to increase global engagement in climate change. Users will be able to upload videos to YouTube’s "Raise your voice" COP15 channel sharing their thoughts and opinions on climate change.

The channel will also allow users to watch videos that go behind the scenes of the conference. During COP15, videos will be shown to the leaders at the conference who will be able to record their opinions from the venue.

The most popular video submissions will be aired globally during the COP15 CNN YouTube debate on December 15, and the top two submissions will win a trip to Copenhagen.

Working with data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Google has created climate change scenarios on Google Maps and Google Earth. Users will be able to view visualizations of greenhouse gas emissions by region, the likely consequences of climate change, as well as narrated virtual tours.

Online Ads To Surpass TV Ads In Sweden

WebProNews Staff — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:02:27 +0000

The world’s largest media buyer, WPP is projecting that 2008 will be a big year for online advertising around the globe, especially in Europe.

A new forecast from WPP’s GroupM predicts that spending on Internet advertising will surpass TV advertising in Sweden this year.

Internet ad spending in the UK and Denmark are also expected to equal or surpass TV ad spending this year. If Internet spending in the UK grows at the projected 30.8% this year and TV stays steady at 1.0%, that puts them at $6.7 billion and $7 billion respectively.

About two-thirds of that spending is expected to be on search advertising.