80,000 Screenshots Later, Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City Gets Google Maps Street Views

Now you can cruise the seedy streets of Grand Theft Auto IV‘s take on Liberty City from the comfort and safety of your web browser, thanks to the efforts of GTA’s most dedicated fans and some 80,000 screenshots.

The folks who run GTA4.net added an impressive new feature to their interactive GTA IV Google Map earlier this month, letting you revisit the boroughs of Liberty City from a Niko’s eye view.

“All roads are covered, except for a few on/off-ramps that weren’t very interesting,” writes Adam from GTA4.net. “There’s around 3000 separate panoramas which were stitched together from almost 80,000 in-game screenshots (captured with a script) and the final set of tiles consist of over a million images.”

Zip around town if you’d like, because we’re told there are some hidden Easter Eggs scattered throughout the city.

Liberty City Map [GTAIV.net]

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    coverage

    Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    Somebody had to much time on their hands.

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    phatjockey

    Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM

    amazing!

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    Nige

    Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 3:17 PM

    So awesome… So completely, utterly awesome. I can’t even really tell you exactly why it’s awesome, it just is!

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    wooktree

    Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 4:38 PM

    awesome idea, looks great. First area I went to was nearly night time so that’s not too helpful :P

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    B Boy Rock

    Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 6:04 PM

    So people how don’t have the game can pretend they’re walking the streets?

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    HK

    Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 11:08 PM

    That’s pretty badass.

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    P3t3

    Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 11:45 AM

    It’s as badass as a honey badger!

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      Roh

      Monday, May 30, 2011 at 9:21 AM

      So badass it’l run up under ya and tear your scrotum off!

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    doubleDizz

    Monday, May 30, 2011 at 10:56 AM

    wow. this would’ve been awesome if it came out within a year of the actual release

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    Joshua Lay

    Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 5:46 AM

    Quite awesome. Now, if someone did this with the Just Cause 2 map…….

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