Scavengeroogle and WorldChanging are among those who’ve discovered that Google Maps’s satellite imagery for the rest of the world just got a lot more detailed, with high-resolution images available for a number of cities and other locations outside North America. Which means a lot more interesting stuff can be viewed in close-up, as Alison discovers in this view of the Pyramids.

Update: As might be expected, Google Globetrotting is all over this.