On Australia Day 2007 Google Earth did something a little different, they pre-announced when and where their planes would be flying over certain parts of Sydney. Furthermore, they provided a tracker so that you could plan your day around trying to live in Google Earth aerial photographic infamy.
The Australia Day event was different from usual Google aerial photography protocol, and naturally created quite a buzz in Sydney. The resulting images, which became available on Google Earth a couple weeks back, are some of the clearest shots we have seen from the mapping application.
Though there were plenty of attempts at staged promotion, a no fly zone, combined with Google editors seem to have thoroughly wiped out any examples of inevitable private mapvertising. We couldn't find any such examples, and we like to think our favorite image find from the day was purely spontaneous.
The folks pictured above were playing water pong out on Bondi Beach when the Google planes passed overhead. The photos are super high resolution, but you still can't make out the details of the players or what they might be drinking. That's OK, we know Australia well enough to know these folks were playing water beer pong on Australia Day.
Spend some time surfing around the Google Australia Day flyover shots and let us in the comments section if you happen upon anything cool.