Blighty today surrendered to Sreet View's all-seeing eye as Google extended the service's coverage to encompass 95 per cent of the UK.

The news will come as no surprise to El Reg's eagle-eyed readership, who kept a close eye on the search monolith's Orwellian black Opels as they prowled Great Britain. Here's our Web 0.2 spymobile sighting mashup...

View the Map (opens in a new window) [1]

...which in turn led to some interesting surveillance feedback loop [2] phenomena, as our photographers were themselves captured [3] on Street View:

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Of course, the nationwide coverage offers exciting new feedback loops, like this one [4] in Trefonen, Wales:

Lovely. If any of you who submitted snaps to our map spot yourselves giving the snoopmobile some stick, let me know here [5]. ®

Links

1. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=utf-8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=103601503239287784075.0004520bb894b73db51de&ll=49.88543,3.622356&spn=16.025043,17.552847&source=embed
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/24/surveillance_feedback_loop/
3. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&g=ng2+1ae&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=52.943937,-1.166089&panoid=w3t8-YSdNH-5P6bC86cckQ&cbp=12,8.292725658677929,,3,6.017803156313414&ll=52.944423,-1.166782&spn=0,359.9922&z=17
4. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en-GB&geocode=&q=chapel+lane+trefonen&sll=51.495498,-0.146365&sspn=0.003807,0.007349&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Chapel+Ln,+Trefonen,+Shropshire,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.834101,-3.100671&spn=0.001834,0.003675&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=52.834192,-3.100765&panoid=4x72j_3HbM_ANBNOuh3yhQ&cbp=12,157.5,,3,2.57
5. mailto:lester.haines@theregister.co.uk

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