Google Maps Street View functionality has now been launched for places in the UK. The street map cars look to have covered as much road as is possible in cities such as Manchester, Bristol, Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield and of course London.

It's certainly impressive, below is a screenshot of as close as you can get (by road) to the Gencia offices. Will probably now take the afternoon off to explore the delights of Manchester city centre and beyond.

The full list of places covered is as follows:

Aberdeen
Belfast
Birmingham
Bradford
Bristol
Cambridge
Cardiff
Coventry
Derby
Dundee
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Leeds
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Manchester
Newcastle
Norwich
Nottingham
Scunthorpe
Sheffield
Southampton
Swansea
York

Now I've nothing against the place, but Scunthorpe???

For more Google Maps Street View fun follow this link.