Speaking of cool places on google maps, check out Tristan Da Cunha, one of the most remote, inhabited places on Earth.

Link:

http://tinyurl.com/y88rku4

My hands get prickly when I think about some of the places that could get the Street View treatment: Marrakech, Morocco; Venezia, Italy; the Great Pyramids; heck, even the sewers of Paris.

I need never leave my chair again!

Though, in fact, wandering through virtual Pompeii makes me really want to go back to Pompeii.

Street view is great for reliving your holiday and correctly sorting all those photos you took - a perfect memory aid. Also: (exact) post hoc GPS tagging.

Yeah, I've been curious about Venice for a while. That would be cool in so many ways.

I don't think the google van would fit in most of the streets in Venice, and the van is too big to fit on a gondola :)

Venice is beautiful. I was just there on September.

Exactly - they'd have to create something just for Venice, by putting their gear onto the right kind of boat. Which is one of the ways that it would be cool.

They've increased the coverage A LOT, expecially in the area around Milan. Next step the north est? With Verona, Venice, Udine, etc...

Speriamo di si`! I want to be able to send friends and relatives in the US pictures of where I live in Padova.

I wonder if the pictures were captured using this:

http://gizmodo.com/5255361/google-street-view-employs-high+t...

A gold star to the first person who posts a link to Caecilius and Metella's house.

Since I'm in withdrawal from gold star collection ever since I finished Super Mario Galaxy, I looked for it, and it turns out the street his villa is on hasn't been recorded in street view: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Agh, sorry: out of gold stars. Does an upvote work?

(BTW, that totally made my day. I love HN... :)