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A PACKED City of Manchester Stadium was added to Google's 360-degree Street View mapping service today.
The internet giant's pedal-powered trike — fitted with a panoramic camera — completed a circuit of the ground minutes before the Manchester derby kicked off.

It is the first time Google has collected imagery from a full stadium, but it took the opportunity to do so following an invitation from Manchester City.

The thousands of images are stitched together digitally to create an interactive 360-degree composition.

Google's software automatically recognises faces and blurs them to preserve anonymity.

It will have its work cut out this afternoon — there were more than 45,000 fans inside the stadium.

The trike also lapped the exterior of the stadium before kick-off, capturing some of the atmosphere as fans made their way to the game.

The imagery will be available on Google Maps and will also be embedded in the Manchester City official website.

Google has previously used its trike to capture 360-degree views of Stonehenge, National Trust properties and even the Alton Towers theme park.

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Of all the matches to cover, we now have a perminant reminder of the scum at CoMs
 
any1 know when this is supposed to be sorted for??, jus looked and its not on yet
 
It was less than half full when the bike went round.

"A PACKED Ciity of Manchester Stadium" it wasn't.
 
Im dreading seeing this. I was with Moonchester and the other one when it went past. Fuck im going ot be on google hugging a bloke in fancy dress
 
Bluebird1 said:
100%manc said:
Im dreading seeing this. I was with Moonchester and the other one when it went past. Fuck im going ot be on google hugging a bloke in fancy dress
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Haha, I think you can do a great photoshop with that image!
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wont need to it will be hidious enough
 
MattiH said:
any1 know when this is supposed to be sorted for??, jus looked and its not on yet
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Probably a few months. They're adding an awful lot. It was only recently that they added images of just about every road in western Europe...
 
took a long time for all of UK to get on there - I would say it would be a few months - also I'm not sure how long it'll take them to blur all the 20,000 faces (it was only half full at the time) it has picked up
 
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