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MOW your lawns, prune your gardens – and don’t park your car where it shouldn’t be seen – for the summer of 2010 anyway.

Google, the online resource which through its Google Maps and Street View functions has attracted a swarm of real estate voyeurs globally – will re-drive the streets of metropolitan Melbourne this summer.

Spokeswoman Annie Baxter told The Age it plans to take higher resolution street view images, which will replace current images, most of which were taken in the six to 12 months preceding August 2008.

Google’s satellite imagery is updated every 12 to 18 months, but its “roading information” – which allows users to inspect a block’s boundary (ie, subdivisions), are obtained in conjunction with data providers and updated every few months.

In July Google announced the ability to search for real estate listings directly from Google Maps.

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