Google’s Street View mapping facility has been available for a score of Brazilian cities for quite some time now (we have details of the arrival of the service at our blog post Google’s Street View has landed in Brazil). The news is that Google is now taking its cameras to an unexpected destination: the Amazon [...]
To complete the information given at destination: Paraty we are publishing the following map prepared with the help of Google Maps. You will find on the map the location of the most important sights in Paraty, the name of the streets of the historic centre and the most important beaches on the Paraty region (including [...]
The website of the Secretaria de Turismo de Rio Grande do Sul (the tourism authority for the state of Rio Grande do Sul) contains a section where users can download road maps. The download link is here and the maps are available in jpeg and pdf format. As usual in the case of tourist information [...]
São Paulo Destino / Destination is a map produced by the local authorities of São Paulo. The problem of a substantial number of maps of São Paulo is that they try to incorporate in a single map all the information about the immense city. The result is often unsatisfactory. The map I am recommending today [...]
Google’s long-awaited Street View imagery of Brazil is finally here. For months, Google’s fleet drove throughout the streets of Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo and a substantial number of towns in the metropolitan area of the mentioned cities taking thousands of photographs and documenting visually what Brazil looks like from ground level. [...]
