While browsing Google Maps earlier this evening I noticed that the ‘StreetView’ selector seemed to have gone live – that is “Pegman” as Google call it, turned yellow when the map was zoomed in:

Click on Pegman and move him onto the map and georeferenced photos from Google’s Panoramio service will appear:

Panoramio photos on Google Maps in Ireland

Some of the geo-referencing is quite off, but much of it is good.  Here’s the official announcement from the Google lat/Long Blog.  Of course if you zoom out to show all of Europe, you can see the volume of georeferenced photos, but more interestingly, the areas where StreetView is currently available:

Pegman goes to Europe

Is this update a precursor for the much anticipated arrival of StreetView here in Ireland?  No word yet on that, ‘early next year’ seems to be the sufficiently vague agreed date.