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Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

By Andy Smith March 25, 2009, 1:14 AM PDT

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Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Google has launched its Street View service in the UK, giving street-level photography of 25 of the largest cities in the country.nn

nHere silicon.com has rounded up a selection of the top UK tech sites seen through Street View’s lens – starting with Google’s own HQ in London: Belgrave House, Buckingham Palace Road in Victoria.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Not all roads in the selected cities have been mapped – Google relied on a fleet of camera-packing vans to take images, and coverage ‘blackspots’ are easy to find.n

nApple’s Regent Street Store appears to have missed out on a direct Google drive-by but the Apple flag is visible in the image above, down the street on the right hand side, along with plenty of shoppers – not all of whom appear to have been facially blurred by Google’s algorithm.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Rising above the rooftops of London’s West End is the BT Tower – a 1960s icon and now a Grade II listed building.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Another tech mecca – the Science Museum on South Kensington’s Exhibition Road.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Way out west at the edge of Street View’s coverage area in London is the unimposing low-rise building pictured in the middle of this photograph: Heathrow Airport’s newest addition and tech mega-project, Terminal 5.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Also sitting in a Street View blackspot is the CBS Interactive offices – aka Silicon Towers. The entrance to the offices on Lavington Street is further along this road.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Also with headquarters in Southwark is the Symbian Foundation, on Boundary Row – tucked away down the side street pictured here, off a leafy-looking Blackfriars Road.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Rather more imposing to look at is the BBC’s White City building, in Shepherd’s Bush.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

And just up the road from White City is the home of BBC Television Centre.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Tech heritage can also be tracked down via Google Street View: here is St James’s Square, Mayfair – where a blue plaque commemorates the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

And here is the plaque on the former home of Charles Babbage, on Dorset Street, Marylebone (the beige house in the center) – the man who invented the machine Lovelace wrote programs for.n

nImage credit: Google Street View

Gallery: UK tech sites on Google Street View

Tech sites can be spied on outside the capital too. Pictured here is Microsoft’s Cambridge research lab – just at the edge of Street View’s coverage area.n

nThe sloping roof of the research facility is just visible across this cricket ground – between the two trees on the right-hand side.

nnImage credit: Google Street View

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