Google street view hasn't passed through Skryne (yet)

A few weeks ago Google Street View passed by a pub in Voe, Shetland, in the Shetland Islands. Here is the colorful scene, embedded as a live map. Note the strange legs; that’s a bug (unlikely) or a glitch in the data (how the photos are mapped onto Street View)

I have family and friends in Skryne, Co. Meath, in Ireland, north of Dublin. There is no “street view” available at all in the Republic of Ireland, at the time of this post, March 2010. The satellite imagery is quite poor when you zoom in close. With some care, and a special map entry for Skryne, the results look fairly nice. If you poke around a bit, you will see that just a wee bit further North, at Monktown, the high-resolution satellite imagery is available for your zooming pleasure.

It would be simple to notify a few people when the Street View vehicle was due, if only I knew. Posing on the street for your picture can work as long as the first people who spot the thing make an effort to determine likely next stops… someone really needs to just follow them around, phoning when they approach the next “landmark.”