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Brand new Street View imagery

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Mike Nolan

A few years ago we had a visit from the Google Street View trike and a year later the imagery was published. Quite a lot has changed on campus since then: the Hub, under construction in Autumn 2010 is now a hive of activity; BioSciences has had a growth spurt and (more than!) a lick of paint; and the entire Eastern Campus including Creative Edge, brand new halls and a lake (with a beach!) have sprung up from nowhere! So last summer we figured our Beautiful Campus could do with another visit from Google and booked them in for Freshers Week last September. The new imagery is now live on Google Maps so take a look around.

Here’s a few of my highlights but leave a comment if you find something interesting!

Eastern Campus Beach

Crossing the bridge

This time the man from Google came with a Street View Trekker instead of the trike so was able to get to even more places!

The new and the old

Sculptures

How many can you find?!

Down the stairs

Ducks!

Wouldn’t be Edge Hill without a few ducks!

Rain forest or rock garden?

Old imagery

The 2010 imagery hasn’t been completely replaced so there’s a few places where they visited originally that haven’t changed including this shot from behind the swimming pool.

Street View Live!

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Mike Nolan

It’s taken exactly a year to go live but you can now see the Ormskirk campus on Google Street View.

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The Hub is now open so maybe it’s time to get the trike back to take some new photos.

Have an explore and leave a comment if you see anything interesting!

Street View trike on campus

Posted on November 2, 2010November 2, 2010 by Mike Nolan

Back in March, Google added Ormskirk – and most of the rest of the country – to Google Street View. Today we were visited by the Google Street View trike to take imagery of the Ormskirk campus. Unlike roads which are photographed using a car, private property like university campuses and Disneyland Paris are photographed using a trike allowing them to get along footpaths.

Most of the campus was covered today in just an hour or so but it’ll be somewhere between a couple of weeks and six months until it’s live on the website. Until then you can check out a (very) short video of the trike on campus:

Google Maps Street View

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Mike Nolan

It’s going to be a while before it comes to Ormskirk, but check out some of the cool work Google have been doing on their new mapping feature, Street View:

Microsoft have had birds eye view over bits of the UK for a while and Google just added 3D views of some major cities plus they must have something planned for SketchUp. They also announced “mapplets” – mashup widgets that can be quickly added to a map.

But I do feel sorry for the guy dressed up in an orange LYCRA® suit!