If you see a Google car with cameras mounted on its roof driving around Vancouver next week, it’s probably beefing up the Street View imagery available in Google Maps.

During the week of November 30, the Street View team will capture new images of the venues for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Since Street View doesn’t display real-time images, the photos Google takes next week will be the ones residents and visitors see when using Google Maps during the Games.

The images of GM Place (which Olympic organizers are calling Canada Hockey Place), the Richmond Olympic Oval, the Olympic villages, and other venues in Metro Vancouver and Whistler will form the first “special collection” of Street View imagery in Canada, Google announced in a press release today (November 27).

On October 7, Google added 11 Canadian cities, including Vancouver and Whistler, to Street View.

Street View now features 50,000 kilometres of Canadian imagery.

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