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Miniatur Wunderland is a vast and incredibly detailed model city in Hamburg, Germany. Famed for it's detail including moving traffic, a working airport and much more it now has another claim to fame, Google Street View.

Not content with sending Street View along the canals of Venice, Google created a small camera capture system, mounted on a tiny vehicle and train, so they could be driven along the roads and rail tracks of Wunderland.

You can take a look at the end result here, see if you can find the model Street View car, complete with roof mounted cameras.

Source: Google Street View


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Posted on Thursday, January 14 @ 11:45:26 UTC by Darren Griffin

 
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