A virtual tour of St Helier on YouTube

Earlier this year Google came to the island with their 'Street View' car to take photographs of Jersey's roads.

They then went away and will be spending the best part of the next year or so stitching it all together so you can go on a virtual tour of Jersey within Google Maps.

But one enterprising islander pre-empted Google and had already taken things into his own hands - making use of a video camera, a car and YouTube.

GadgetGizmo posted a series of videos in 2009 that he filmed while driving in his car around town, adding linked boxes within the text allowing you to chose the direction of travel.

You can watch the St Helier video on YouTube.

It's great fun and a real time kill. I discovered it through a tweet from Brian Le Lion.