With the dawn of the Gallipoli Centenary just two days away, the RSA is welcoming a new initiative from Google.

A raft of new Google street view images of the Turkish peninsula have been unveiled this morning.

Google spokesperson Shane Treeves says it provides people a 360 degree look at important sites and monuments, as if they were there.

He says the imagery was collected using the Google Street View Trekker - the company's latest street view technology.

"It's a backpack which has 15 cameras on top and weighs about 18 kilos, and you can walk along and it takes a photo every two and a half metres, and then it stitches the images together to create 360 imagery."

RSA head David Moger says it allows people to see where the commemorations will take place on Saturday morning.

He says those New Zealanders who entered the ballot but were unsuccessful have missed out on the experience of a lifetime.

"I hope that this will in some way help them to virtually be there, although physically they can't be."

Meanwhile, emotions are close to the surface for those in Gallipoli, two days out from the centenary.

Our reporter Anna Leask says dress rehearsals are underway, with seating and stages for the ceremonies under construction.

While visiting Chunuk Bair, she watched a New Zealand contingent rehearsing one of the songs they'll perform on Saturday.

"The tears welled up pretty quickly.

"It's beautiful to be there. The sun was shining, it had been raining. The sun was out and all these happy kiwi faces singing their hearts out."

Leask says it was a very moving moment.