Submitted photo by Winnipeg cartoonist Dan Phelps

Since April, Google has been roaming our province shooting photos for its Street View application. Dozens of sightings have been reported since they arrived, but all has been quiet for a few weeks — until now. According to eBrandon.ca, the Google car is in the Wheat City once again. And this time, it appears to [...]

Winnipeg is a much bigger place than I thought — especially when you’re capturing every square inch by camera. The Google Street View vehicle is apparently still in town, after months of shooting in our city already. Several tips have been coming into ChrisD.ca this week, so I figured it was time for an update. [...]

Google has made its way into Brandon, according to the website eBrandon.ca. The search engine giant is currently travelling our province in their Street View vehicles to implement photos into its Google Maps feature. Winnipeg has been a popular destination for the roaming cars, as several sightings have been posted on ChrisD.ca in the last [...]

Thanks to ChrisD.ca spies all over the place, we found out that the Google Street View car was in Carman, Manitoba on Saturday. We received multiple e-mails from Carman residents and several photos. On Wednesday we gave you an update on Google’s presence in Manitoba. We know what the car looks like, but someone needs [...]

Many of you have shown an interest in knowing the whereabouts of the Google Street View vehicle since it made itself known a few months ago. Thanks to several tips, I can tell you the car(s) are still in the province. On Monday one of them was spotted on Highway 8 north of the Perimeter. [...]

Perhaps the biggest conspiracy ever to be pulled over the eyes of the citizens of Winnipeg… there’s TWO Google cars roaming our streets! And all this time we only thought there was one?! ChrisD.ca received these photos of two Google Street View vehicles in a Tim Horton’s parking lot on Pembina Highway Thursday morning. Hey, [...]

Posted by Sarah Klein It happened again — another Google Street View vehicle sighting. This time the car was seen on McMillian Avenue and Hugo Street, just near Corydon Avenue on Wednesday morning. But this wasn’t the only place the car was spotted on Wednesday. We received e-mails from people who saw it on Pembina [...]

While some Winnipeggers are under the impression that Google has packed up and left our city, that’s not the case. The search engine giant is still collecting photos of Winnipeg for its Street View feature of Google Maps. This photo was taken Wednesday on Portage Avenue near Polo Park. It’s nice to see Google has [...]

Last week, Google was in Winnipeg working on their Street View feature for Google Maps. Now they’ve moved on to some darker views. Submitted photo by Winnipeg cartoonist Dan Phelps

You’ve probably heard the buzz by now that Google is in Winnipeg taking photos for their Street View feature on Google Maps. Basically it’s a 3D panoramic image that’s captured from atop one of their vehicles with a fancy schmancy camera. The vehicle they’re using is a Chevrolet Cobalt sedan with Ontario plates. There’s a [...]

This week brought a record amount of traffic to ChrisD.ca. The blog has never had five consecutive days (Monday to Friday) where traffic climbed consistently. Weekends are normally a lot slower for traffic, as a lot of visitors surf from work during the week. As you can see from the graph below, March 2 to [...]