Pretty much the whole of central London is now available in panoramic street view, much sooner than we'd expected. In plain English, you can now see photos of any street, shop, pub, house, office or dodgy sauna in the centre of town, as though you were stood in the road outside. All kinds of mischief await. While all eyes have been on Google's fleet of street-mapping cars, the little-known Italian company Seety have also......

Bubble-wrap your A-Z, Londoners: traditional maps of its ilk are on their way out, being stampeded over by new-fangled mapping technologies like Google Maps. And what's worse, new electronic maps are missing off London's historic landmarks. The president of the Royal Cartographic Society, Mary Spence, has spoken out about the lack of detail services such as Google Maps offer beyond roads – and Spence claims that by not marking landmarks such as museums and churches......

Google is out and about capturing London for the latest addition to its Street View service. These 360 degree panoramic views are already available in most major US cities, but now Google is capturing everyone and everything on the streets of London. If your’re planning a visit to one of London’s seedier establishments or are a generally dodgy person then you may want to watch the traffic. You could become part of the growing......

Over on our flickr group there has been some interesting discussion about Google Maps. It's web 2.0 crazy. Simon Crubellier began the thread ('Google Maps Strangeness') with, Has anyone looked at the maps.google.co.uk satellite photo of Trafalgar Square lately? What on earth is going on there? It's obviously the crack of dawn on a summer morning, all the surrounding streets are empty, but the place is packed... The images of London were last updated......

Last week we reported on Walk Score, a tool for people who want to take positive steps towards greener living. This week, something for our more pessimistic readers: Flood Maps. Another twist on Google Maps, look up where you live or where you’re thinking of moving to, type in the amount you predict sea levels will rise, and find out whether you’re going to end up underwater. Projecting sea level rise is problematic. A......

If you’re looking for a new place to live, and want to live more greenly at the same time, Londonist has discovered the perfect tool to help you: Walk Score. A cunning twist on Google Maps, give it a postcode and it’ll calculate how many useful things, such as shops, restaurants, cinemas, schools and parks, are within a mile of your house. Meaning you can use your car less, get fitter, save money and......

We've seen plenty of boastful stats about the reinvigorated Dome — apparently, it could swallow 13 Albert Halls or 10 St Paul's Cathedrals. (Scenarios not all that far fetched, considering nearly a billion quid and numerous reputations have already disappeared into its maw.) But here's a way to judge its size for yourself. Using Google Maps, it is possible to compare London's landmarks from an aerial perspective. The shots are all from the same......

Holy smokes! Giant fish on the MTA, Paris Hilton in jail, then out, then in again, Al Gore, goatses, blumpkins, Matt Damon, and baby art critics! It's been a busy week across the Ist-A-Verse, and here's a smattering of what's been going on. In Gothamist's neck of the woods, they found out that many things are possible: A man caught a 40+ pound fish off the Rockaways and took it home on the subway. Graffiti......

Google Maps have a new toolkit, where you can create your own maps. We don't need much encouragement to play with such things, so soon put together a map of all our back passages. It differs from the previous Platial map in showing the extent of each alleyway, rather than just using place markers. The annotation tools on Google Maps are perfect for this kind of thing. Google's map of London is not perfect,......

We mentioned a while back that the US embassy is considering a move from its traditional Grosvenor Square home. Google Maps seem to have the scoop on the new address. If you search for American Embassy in the UK version of Google Maps, you're pointed towards the large Post Office, just off Oxford Street (although the displayed address is correct). The Register, who discovered this quirk, think it's a counter-terrorism measure. Google has quite......

We love Google Maps. Hell, we love most Google products - if they launched Google Murder we'd be all up your intestine with a sharpened screwdriver while Yahoo! were still beta testing Killr (only kidding - we love Yahoo! too - especially their tubes). Anyway, where were we? Oh yeah, Google Maps. So far the zoomability on London is pretty good, but do you know what we really want? This: Just imagine the guy looking......

Every day this month the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won't already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we'll see what we can move from our sack to your stockings... This might be the most important thing any Londoner should have. Boring? Yes, a little, ok quite a lot. But if you constantly have......

Chocks Away! This brilliant Google Maps mash-up lets you fly a biplane over some very familiar territory. And, oh yes mister, you get guns. With infinite shells. And kamikaze option. Until the Getaway 3 comes out, this is the best way to give your office that good pummeling it so richly deserves without all the nasty complications of reality. Also available for 16 other cities, the moon and Mars. Have fun.......

Lucky Soul play their last headline gig for a while tonight. Given that the World Cup match tonight is Mexico v Angola, we highly recommend you go to the gig instead as you'll get much more excitement and entertainment seeing the band play their sophisticated sunshine pop. We love this band as much as we love The Pipettes, and that's a serious amount of loving going on. The sharp-eyed amongst you may have also......

This weekend is one of a selected few when London's City Hall gets opened up to the public. Home to the GLA and dear Ken since 2002, opinion on the asthetic pleasure of the buliding is always under discussion. We think it's pretty snazzy and hear the view across London from the top is pretty spectactular even if they have rather pretentiously named the top floor 'London's living room'. Opening between 10 and 5pm......

We're pretty sure someone emailed us about Pintsearch a while ago. Maybe it was last year, possibly when we did our Google Maps Hacks post. Whenever it was we remember taking a look and deciding that it wasn't worth a post because the site was very much in its infancy and there just weren't enough pubs listed to make it worthwhile. Since then the site has grown significantly so its very easy to jump......

The time has come. The waiting is over. Desperate Housewives (Wed 10pm C4) is back, and are we ever excited. We'll trot out the tired old cliché about how its acid-bright façade hides a surprisingly black heart because, hell, it's true; something is rotten in the state of Stepford ... even if we all know that the show doesn't quite have the courage of its convictions and there's occasionally a touch of the hugging-and-learning......

Londonist loves Google Maps. We love the drag-to-scroll feature, we love the way it finds businesses given just a name, we love the satellite images. All in all, decidedly superior to its competitors. So whom do we tell about this? And this? Any other bizarre London errors in Google Maps? Post them in the comments.......

As regular readers will know, we at the Londonist love comics. So you can only imagine our excitement when this week's Beano found it's way to the Londonist sports desk featuring none other than the mighty Queens Park Rangers. Not only are the R's second in Division Two, but this week we find they've been playing Beano Town. Of course, we won't tell you what happened - you'll have to buy it to find......

Crystal Palace, QPR, Millwall, and Watford began their Division Two campaigns at the weekend. Combined total of points gained: 1. Not the best of starts then, but a quick opportunity for redemption tonight. In theory at least. The Palace have a tricky tie tonight away at Wolves. Glenn Hoddle's men started the season as they ended much of last season, with a draw. You know, of course, what happened to the Eagles on Saturday......