Talk:Google Street View/Archive 4

IvP Crap in Article.

Thanks to the person who god rid of the IvP crap in the article. God some people are so lame, pushing their stupid political agendas in an irrelevant article.

118.209.48.123 (talk) 10:39, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Museum View

"Museum View" is mentioned several times in the article, but never defined. Please provide a definition. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 21:12, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

It appears from checking it that "museum views" means that the only ground-level pictures they have are normal photographs, not the panorama typically provided by Googgle Street View. I would take "museum views" to be equivalent to "file photos". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:15, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Looks like they've removed that feature now --TheChampionMan1234 00:16, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Austria? Museum views and ski resorts?

I think actual parts of austria is included (here) TheChampionMan1234 02:35, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

PALESTINE

With Google's most recent update, Palestinian territory in the West Bank was CLEARLY added. I have attempted to show this and it has been removed repeatedly, even if it contains proper citations. I will post it again, and if it is removed I WILL dispute the neutrality of the article. Monocletophat123 (talk) 01:48, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

I agree. It is factual whether or not the West Bank has coverage. It is a simple yes or no. And the answer is yes. Sebwite (talk) 01:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Neutrality Dispute

In the most recent update, Google CLEARLY added territory in the West Bank to Street View. This is not even territory that Israel claims. Someone is putting their own political views before the fact that the territory was added. Monocletophat123 (talk) 20:12, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

I have added a source that a car was spotted in the West Bamk for the "future" section, and this will do for now. --TheChampionMan1234 06:51, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Just because Google added the data for the West Bank does not mean the Wikipedia article is biased. alexanderao (talk) 23:26, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Dense Coverage Overseas, Poor Coverage in Much of the USA

Some countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia are densely covered, but a lot of the USA is sparsely covered - for example go to Pennsylvania and a lot of fairly sizable towns clearly show the Google car driving in, doing a loop or two round the CBD then driving out again to the next town. Is there some sort of agenda about gathering data about overseas locations while keeping a lot of the USA out of view? --MichaelGG (talk) 10:09, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Really? http://i.imgur.com/G7KlVNc.jpg alexanderao (talk) 23:22, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Demonstrably so. http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv144/BribieG/streetviewexample_zps7e8220ed.jpg --MichaelGG (talk) 01:20, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the long wait for a response. I think you have demonstrated your point well but what would you write in the article to express that point? alexanderao (talk) 16:32, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Wii Street U

I've added a small part about Wii Street U. Change it with new information if you can. JackWilfred (talk) 21:36, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Official vs. Unofficial countries need updating

Peru and Indonesia are both listed on the official street view website as upcoming countries. I don't know how to change the color on the map. http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/learn/where-is-street-view.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.20.176.58 (talk) 20:19, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Has been updated. --ELEKHH^T 01:55, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Israel

Israel is a country, not a "place". please correct this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.117.39.117 (talk) 03:27, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

I guess what is probably meant in the article is that the first place with streetview coverage in the Middle East is within Israel, as probably not all of Israel is covered by streetview. --ELEKHH^T 01:55, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

Street View in India

Has nobody else noticed that Street View is now available in India? Mind you, it's limited to a few outlying districts in the Bangalore area, showing mostly holidaymaking facilities, but it's there. Kelisi (talk) 05:30, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Street View in Argentina

When is going to be Street View available in Argentina? Someone here knows something about it? some news? thanks. --190.188.5.239 (talk) 22:08, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

Lacking in conception information.

I don't know if it is due to lack of information released by Google, but this page lacks information on Streetview's original conception - who thought of it, who approved it, why it was a good idea. Was it an extension of others work or was it original? The article pretty much just starts with it debuting, not with when the idea was in development or times previous.--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 00:49, 9 May 2013 (UTC)

How's this, for a start: Streetview had its origins in 2001 with the The Stanford CityBlock Project, a Google-sponsored Stanford University research project. The project ended in June 2006, and its technology was folded into StreetView. --Cornellier (talk) 02:59, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Street View HD imagery updates in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

New street view imagery dating from 2011 to late as 2012 has been spotted in the Twin Cities, Duluth, the major cities of Minnesota. Wisconsin also has been updated in Milwaukee, Green Bay, and many major spots.

Also, I saw Virginia, MN been updated with Google Street View imagery. I believe that most of Minnesota has been updated.

Please add this update.

Edit: New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and all of New England states have been majorly updated. Please add that too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.75.37.60 (talk) 19:50, 2 July 2013‎

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. RudolfRed (talk) 00:49, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 17 August 2013

Hi! I have noticed that on the coverage chart, the United Arab Emirates is listed after the United Kingdom. To be in the correct alphabetical order, the UAE should be listed before the UK. Is it possible that this could be corrected? Thanks! 108.95.130.150 (talk) 05:53, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

If you use the arrows at the top of the column, it sorts into correct order. RudolfRed (talk) 04:10, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

3D mode photo caption: what does this mean?

"Google Street View occasionally changes in order to be compatible with 3D red cyan glasses." The author didn't know how it was that they were accidentally turning 3D mode on and off? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.93.104.36 (talk) 22:46, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

I think it was just some unclear wording. I clarified it. MrBook (talk) 16:04, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

The article contains this: "For some areas Google Street View offers an alternative mode that is compatible with 3D red cyan glasses, shown here in a shot of Tijuana, Mexico, near the U.S. border." I'd be most grateful if anyone could supply evidence that this is true. --Cornellier (talk) 03:07, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Not current (wrong tense?)

The "Future" and "Discontinued regions" sections refer to dates from years ago as though they are in the future. Relevant followup should be added to the article, or at least this old information should be rephrased or moved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philmac (talk • contribs) 22:09, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Colorado River update

Despite Google's extremely late report and the stories going through the media as a result, the Colorado River update was actually added sometime around January: this, this, and this are youtube videos showing the river that were uploaded towards the end of January. Here's some mini-article showing it that was posted ~two months ago. This is not the newest update - I suggest not re-adding it to the infobox or the timeline page. ProtossPylon 09:56, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

You're right! Good links. - EugεnS¡m¡on(14) ® 10:17, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

West Bank flag icon

I've added a flag icon to West Bank under the "Future" section and User:Eugen Simion 14 keeps removing it claiming there is no official flag. I don't see any problem with it being here or else {{flag|West Bank}} wouldn't work when I insert it. Anybody got any thoughts? Survivorfan1995 (talk) 19:49, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

I've always noticed that Eugen was the first responder to anyone adding a flag to the West Bank section, and he can't seem to bring himself to discuss anything - he just goes around attacking people who add it. I don't see the problem; Palestine's flag is clearly accepted by Wikipedia as Template:Flag obviously defaults to it. It's hardly significant enough to break WP:3RR over, which he quietly did. ProtossPylon 04:34, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

I'm just going to re-add the flag. It's obvious that Eugen is the only one who really cares yet he is still unresponsive to a discussion about it. ProtossPylon 07:19, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Content in article about new "time travel" feature

Recently, in the new Google Maps, they've added the ability to look at old rounds of Street View footage. Does that need documenting in the article? Figgycity50 (talk) 14:50, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Good idea. I added that to the Features section. --FlagFreak ^TALK 19:52, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

New place in Hong Kong

Recently, several new places including 3 outlying island, some trails and some tourist spots are added in Hong Kong recently at the same day of the newest release. Please include it http://hkfiles.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/google-street-view-trekker-comes-to-hong-kong/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheuk18me94 (talk • contribs) 03:03, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done: Content with this level of detail should be in the Hong Kong section in the article Google Street View in Asia. By the way that article is not locked so you can add the info there yourself. --Cornellier (talk) 20:00, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Lithuanian landmarks in latest (April 2014) update

I would like editors to include several Lithuanian landmarks in the updates list, located in various places including Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda and Trakai. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.181.213.55 (talk) 14:33, 7 May 2014 (UTC)

Not done: Content with this level of detail belongs in in the article Google Street View in Europe. By the way that article is not locked so you can add the info there yourself. --Cornellier (talk) 20:00, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 May 2014

Under the section where the article list the amount of time since the last update, the amount of time still reads two days.

86.24.50.109 (talk) 16:23, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

 Done Unfortunately, this feature only appears to update when someone edits to the page; I carried out a "nul-edit" and it automatically updated to 4 days. If the latest release was several months ago, the odds are high that someone will edit the page each month, but when the clock is measuring days, it needs an edit every day to keep the clock correct. Personally, I don't see the value in it, but others obviously do .... - Arjayay (talk) 17:00, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Note: This appears to be a caching issue and will only update upon some kind of edit or as the job queue gets around to updating it (could be once a day or once every third month depending on number of jobs the queue is processing). If it is important to have a daily update of this (I don't think it is so much), you could always ask Joe Decker to add it to the list of pages his bot pokes daily. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 17:51, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

It would be easy to do technically, but I'm dubious that BAG would approve it as a task. Even though the article is protected, it is likely possible for any editor to update it with a WP:PURGE. If you create an account, and go to preferences > Gadgets > Appearance > "Add a clock in the personal toolbar that displays the current time in UTC (which also provides a link to purge the current page).", and check that, you'll get a clock in the upper-right hand corner, and when you click on it, boom, the page will be updated. The page I linked to has other ways you can accomplish the same thing, but with more work, I find the clock very easy. Drop me a note on my talk page if you'd like to talk about this more. --j⚛e decker^talk 06:27, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 June 2014

Under Canada, it should be noted that with the addition of imagery from Fort McMurray in the spring of 2014 all major Canadian urban centres have now been imaged (although Gaspe and Labrador remain unimaged, there are no urban areas the size of Fort McMurray). Suggested wording: "With the addition of imagery from Fort McMurray in the spring of 2014, all major Canadian urban centres are now covered by Street View." I do not know where an exact date can be found; if one is available, of course please substitute as applicable. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 14:15, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Thanks, Older and ... well older (talk) 19:28, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

New layout of article

I do not like the new layout of the article and preferred the layout of the article as of 06:15 30 August 2014. It would be much appreciated if the article was reverted to this layout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.24.50.109 (talk) 14:45, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. Would you please say what you miss? Is it the content or the layout? Unfortunately older versions of the article did have a number of flaws which have now been fixed, so reverting would re-introduce more problems than it would fix. Looks forward to hearing your views. --Cornellier (talk) 03:10, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

I concur that the new layout is too "minimalist". I don't even know exactly which countries Google Street View covers (as well as the year of addition and future plans)! I am sure the notability is high and it's very important to everybody! --SoftFeta (talk) 03:34, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

SoftFeta. How are you "concurring" with 86.24.50.109 that the layout is "minimalist" when that user didn't say it was minimalist but just less "preferred"? Please check WP:NOTDIR. You say you "don't even know exactly which countries Google Street View covers". That information is here: https://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/learn/where-is-street-view.html and doesn't need to be copy-pasted into the article. If you are missing info formerly in this article please see Timeline of Google Street View. If you want more detail please check Google Street View in the United States, Google Street View in Canada, Google Street View in Asia, Google Street View in Europe, Google Street View in Latin America, Google Street View in Oceania, Google Street View in Africa. Is there something else you miss from the current article?

Thanks. I didn't know there's an Timeline of Google Street View page. --SoftFeta (talk) 04:13, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Is new Google Street View / Maps actually slower than classic?

The Implementation section contains the statement "... the new version of Street View, that is said to be slower than the previous one, as it seems to happen with the whole Google Maps". Is this a fact? Has this been tested? Where are the numbers? The two references given are to a forum and a Geography web site basically with someone giving a subjective complaint about it being slow. The fact that people have complained on record does not mean it is actually slower, and Wikipedia should not imply that it is. Adequate references would link to someone who has objective data on whether the new service is slower or not. --Cornellier (talk) 01:24, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Coverage section: is it up-to-date? Is it even maintainable?

I don't think this section needs to be incredibly detailed or up-to-the minute: that's what Timeline of Google Street View is for. In this [revision] User:Eugen_Simion_14 posted an "Out of Date" template. What's out of date? Can you elaborate? I took a quick look at the Google site and can't see the problem. In the longer term, I'd say that if editors want this to be up-to-date down to the every detail then the section will have to be reduced in scope, otherwise it'll be unmaintainable and constantly "out-of-date". So I think what needs to happen so the template can be removed is one of the following:

• provide more detail on what is out of date so it can be fixed
• reduce the scope of the section so that it's more general, like "Coverage is good in most of North America, the Antipodes, Southern Africa, and Europe, with limited coverage elsewhere."
• if there isn't more detailed info associated with the template, just remove it. --Cornellier (talk) 20:57, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

User:Eugen_Simion_14 never replied to this but instead replaced his own "This article is outdated" flag with a map in [revision]. --Cornellier (talk) 18:12, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Putting info about latest imagery addition in infobox

User:Cornellier keeps removing the latest imagery addition(s) from the infobox (most recently, Landmarks in Egypt), even though this information has been placed there and kept up-to-date, without any objections that I can recall until now, for the past five years. If this is not a good place for this information, where is? Since imagery updates constitute a new release as far as the infobox is concerned, shouldn't there be a small bit of supplemental information in the infobox stating what, exactly, is new about the release? If WP:NOR is the problem, typically new imagery releases are communicated by Google at google-latlong.blogspot.com (indeed, the latest update featuring Egyptian landmarks is mentioned there). —Mwmnp (talk) 02:32, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

I also think the last update should be on the template because is useful, it's ok putting it. Any thoughts?EugεnS¡m¡on(14) ® 10:33, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

You're saying the Egyptian flag linking to the Wikipedia article on Egypt and the phrase "Landmarks in Egypt", linking to nothing, signifies that the latest release included Landmarks in Egypt? OK. That wasn't obvious at all, I thought it was a mistake. I guess I thought this because this is such an atypical use of the infobox. Look at Help:Infobox where it says, among other things, that an infobox should not contain flags. "Flag icons should generally not be used ... they are unnecessarily distracting and give undue prominence to one field among many." The purpose of the infobox is to give a general overview, not tiny details that change regularly. Take a look at the Google_Maps infobox. If you want to have this info on the page, then I'd suggest putting it under Google_Street_View#Coverage, as I have just done. For the record I think it may be inappropriate for this page because WP:NOTCHANGELOG --Cornellier (talk) 14:29, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

Good to see that the old look of the article has been reinstated

It's good to see that the old look of the Google Street View article has been reinstated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.24.50.109 (talk) 17:06, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

latest release version

A few questions about this: 1. I see the "latest release version" being incremented from time to time. The infobox implies that this is an actual software version (like Windows 7, Window 8, etc.). According to linked list we're at version 126. Where does this number come from? It looks like an incremented number that is changed every time someone adds a row to the table rather than a software version number (as implied in the infobox). 2. What prompts the addition of a new line in the table and an incrementing of the number? Is it just whenever someone notices a change? How is this documented or reported by Google? Could there be changes implemented that go unnoticed? 3. should this even be called a "release version" since the software is not necessarily being updated, but rather the data? --Cornellier (talk) 03:00, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Map misleading?

The colouring of large areas of the globe by country is rather misleading. For example it's true that Canada has thorough coverage of populated areas, but the fact is that most of Canada is uninhabited as shown in [image]. The same is true for many other parts of the globe: Russia, Austria, etc. What would be more useful would be a map showing the density of coverage, regardless of political boundary. A massive area of the southern hemisphere (Antarctica) is marked as "partial coverage" but it's actually just a few panoramas, unless I'm mistaken. --Cornellier (talk) 13:14, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Infobox image

Looking at this page on a handheld mobile device (iphone etc.) I thought the screenshots of Manchester were pretty unhelpful as they take up some many pixels and force me to download the images. I for one do not go to wikipedia to see what the software which I can plainly see on my device looks like. but to get some background info about it. Not sure what the use case is for showing a broken-up panorama. --Cornellier (talk) 03:08, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Anybody? Have you looked at this on a phone? This needs a better image. Anybody object to my being bold and fixing it? --Cornellier (talk) 03:28, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Why is the article semi-protected?

I'm just curious as to why the article has been semi-protected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.24.50.109 (talk) 16:40, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Because of the high level IPs vandalism. Please look at the history page. - EugεnS¡m¡on(14) ® 16:49, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 December 2014

175.140.89.145 (talk) 14:54, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Not done: as you have not requested a change.
If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to, or changed in, any article. - Arjayay (talk) 15:08, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Suggestion for additional information

I wonder if it might be worthwhile to add some discussion (sourced, of course) over controversy regarding the timing of when images are taken. For example, when Street View first surveyed the streets of Saskatoon, Canada a few years ago, the local newspaper ran a column complaining about the timing, as the images were taken while the city was still in the midst of the spring thaw and the writer was concerned the city wasn't being displayed to its best. Similarly, I have noticed that Street View images of North American locations often appear to have been taken in early morning hours because you often see businesses that are closed at the time. This is very evident in the latest images (taken December 2014) of Hollywood Blvd. in LA. The street view car was clearly sent down the street early in the morning because nothing is open, and as result it makes it appear that most of Hollywood Blvd is closed and out of business because for security reasons businesses usually put down boards and the like. It's not very attractive and I'm sure someone has noticed this and complained to the media. This isn't a request for anything to be added right now, but if someone is working on this article, I think this is a valid point of discussion if there are media sources available. BTW the Saskatoon media reference is already, er, referenced in the Google Street View privacy concerns and Google Street View in Canada articles. 68.146.52.234 (talk) 05:03, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2015

唐山健志郎 (talk) 03:10, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

 Not done as you have not requested a change. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --I am k6ka ^{Talk to me!} _{See what I have done} 03:40, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

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Google Street View From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Google Street View Deansgate St John St.png A road junction in Manchester, England, showing nine angles. Initial release May 25, 2007; 8 years ago Stable release Release 156 (see list) / July 18, 2015; 7 days ago Available in Multiple languages Website Google Street View Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include cities and rural areas worldwide. Streets with Street View imagery available are shown as blue lines on Google Maps.

Google Street View displays panoramas of stitched images. Most photography is done by car, but some is done by trekker, tricycle, walking, boat, snowmobile, camel, and underwater apparatus.

Contents [hide] 1 History and features 2 Implementation 3 Data capturing equipment 4 Pegman 5 Privacy concerns 6 Third-party use of images 7 Coverage 8 Gallery 9 See also 10 References 11 External links History and features Street View had its origins in 2001 with The Stanford CityBlock Project, a Google-sponsored Stanford University research project. The project ended in June 2006, and its technology was folded into StreetView.[1]

2007: Launched on 25 May in the United States using Immersive Media technology. 2008: In May Google announces that it was testing face-blurring technology on its photos of the busy streets of Manhattan.[2] The technology uses a computer algorithm to search Google's image database for faces and blurs them.[3] Street View integrated into Google Earth 4.3, the Maps application on the Apple iPhone, and the Maps application for S60 3rd Edition. In November "pegman" is introduced. If this is dropped on the map the Street View opens and takes over the whole map window. 2009: Introduction of full-screen option. Smart Navigation introduced allowing users to navigate around the panoramas by double-clicking with their cursor on any place or object they want to see.[4] 2010: Indoor views of businesses available.[5] Google invites users to contribute panoramas of their own using gadgets with Android 4.2. Google highlights user-contributed panoramas with blue circle icons on Maps. The company also created a website to highlight places in the world where one can find them.[6] 2013: Business interior views are shown as small orange circles. Businesses such as shops, cafés and other premises can pay a photographer to take panoramic images of the interior of their premises which are then included in Street View.[7] Google sets up program to let third parties borrow the Street View Trekker (a backpack mounted camera) and contribute imagery to Google Maps.[8] 2014: Street-level imagery from the past can now be seen, if available for a given street view.[9] Implementation Street View is available as a component of Google Maps, as a web application, and as a mobile application for Android and iOS. Originally, Google Maps used Adobe Flash for Street View.[10] Google overhauled Google Maps in 2013. The newer version uses JavaScript extensively and has a JavaScript application programming interface.[11] The new Google Maps and Street View are slower than the old version.[12][13] A user can switch to the old version of Google Maps, which is especially useful when Google Maps is more sluggish than usual.[14][15]

Data capturing equipment

Taken in Oct 2010, a Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California Cameras: Street View imagery has come from several generations of camera systems developed in-house.[16] The cameras contain no mechanical parts, including the shutter, instead using CMOS sensors and an electronic rolling shutter. Widely-deployed versions are: R2: the earliest photos were captured with a ring of eight 11-megapixel CCD sensors with commercial photographic wide-angle lenses. R5: uses a ring of eight 5-megapixel CMOS sensors with custom low-flare lenses, plus a fisheye lens on top to capture upper levels of buildings. R7: uses 15 of the same sensors and lenses as R5, but no fish-eye. Positioning: recorded photographs must be associated with accurate positioning. This is done via a Global Positioning System, wheel speed sensor, and inertial navigation sensor data.[16] Laser range scanners from Sick AG for the measuring of up to 50 meters 180° in the front of the vehicle.[17] These are used for recording the actual dimensions of the space being photographed. Vehicles: data recording equipment is usually mounted on the roof of a car. A Trike (tricycle) was developed to record pedestrian routes including Stonehenge, and other UNESCO World Heritage sites. In 2010 a snowmobile-based system captured the 2010 Winter Olympics sites.[16] Trolleys have been used to shoot the insides of museums, and in Venice the narrow roads were photographed with backpack-mounted cameras, and canals were photographed from boats.[18] Pegman When not in use, Pegman sits atop the Google Maps zoom controls. He has appeared at Google events, such as the launch of Street View in France in 2008. Occasionally Pegman dresses up for special events or is joined by peg friends in Google Maps. When dragged into Street View near Area 51, he becomes a flying saucer. When viewing older views, the Pegman in the minimap changes to Doc Brown from Back to the Future.

Privacy concerns Main article: Google Street View privacy concerns Google Street View will blur houses for any user who makes a request, in addition to the automatic blurring of faces and licence plates.[19] Privacy advocates have objected to the Google Street View, pointing to views found to show men leaving strip clubs, protesters at an abortion clinic, sunbathers in bikinis, and people engaging in activities visible from public property in which they do not wish to be seen publicly.[20] Another concern is the height of the cameras, and in at least two countries, Japan[21] and Switzerland,[22] Google has had to lower the height of its cameras so as to not peer over fences and hedges. The service also allows users themselves to flag inappropriate or sensitive imagery for Google to review and remove.[23] Police Scotland received an apology for wasting police time in 2014 from a local business owner in Edinburgh who in 2012 had staged a fake murder for the Google camera car by lying in the road "while his colleague stood over him with a pickaxe handle".[24] In May 2010, it was revealed that Google had collected and stored payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi connections as part of Street View.[25] German authorities are considering legal action while the Foreign Minister said "I will do all I can to prevent it." Australian police have also been ordered to investigate.[26]

The concerns have led to Google not providing or suspending the service in countries around the world.

Australia: In 2010, Google Street View ceased operations in Australia, following months of investigations from Australian authorities.[27] However, this cessation has since ended, with Google announcing plans to continue production on May 4, 2011[28] and subsequently releasing updated Street View imagery for Australian towns and cities on July 27, 2011.[29] Germany: In 2011, Google stopped taking Street View images in Germany.[30] India: In 2011, Google stopped taking street images in India, after receiving a letter from the local authorities.[31] Canada: Street View cars had been spotted as early as September 2007, in Montréal, though service for Canada was delayed while attempting to settle with the Canadian government over its privacy laws. Third-party use of images Fine-art photographers have selected images for use in their own work.[32] Although the images may be pixelated, the colours muddy, and the perspective warped, the photographs have been published in book form and exhibited in art galleries.[33] Michael Wolf won an honourable mention in Daily Life in the 2011 World Press Photo competition for some of his work using Google Street View.[34] Mishka Henner was short-listed for the 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in November 2012 for his series 'No Man's Land', which depicts sex workers at rural roadside locations.[35]

Swedish programmer Anton Wallén developed a game called GeoGuessr, which places players into a Google Street View and has them guess its location.[36]

Coverage

 Countries and dependencies with mostly full coverage
 Countries and dependencies with partial coverage
 Countries and dependencies with full or partial coverage planned (official)
 Countries and dependencies with full or partial coverage planned (unofficial)
 Countries and dependencies with views of selected businesses and/or tourist attractions only
 Countries and dependencies with no current or planned coverage

Main article: Coverage of Google Street View In June 2012, Google announced that it has captured 20 petabytes of data for Street View, comprising photos taken along 5 million miles of roads, covering 39 countries and about 3,000 cities.[37] Coverage extends to most Cambridge Bay, Nunavut to Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands.[38] Maps also include panoramic views taken under water such as in West Nusa Tenggara underwater coral, in the Grand Canyon, inside museums, and Liwa Desert in United Arab Emirates which are viewed from camelback.[39] In a ten-day trek with Apa Sherpa, Google documented Khumbu, Nepal with its Mount Everest, Sherpa communities, monasteries and schools.[40]

Google also added landmarks in Egypt, including the Pyramids of Giza, Cairo Citadel, Saqqara, Monastery of Saint Mina, and the Citadel of Qaitbay in the 9 September 2014 release.

Many places still have limited or no coverage, including:

The Caribbean except Martinique Central America South America except Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru Africa except Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland and some city views in Madagascar Austria, Germany, Belarus and several Balkan states in Europe Asia except Bhutan, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, parts of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Laos, Mongolia, South Korea, and far eastern Russia The Middle East except Israel and parts of the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) The South Pacific, except Australia and New Zealand

Semi-protected edit request on 29 July 2015

Copypaste of entire article removed
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Semi-protected edit request on 22 December 2015

There is a non-working web link on the page.

Please replace:

• Map of Google Street View coverage

with

• Map of Google Street View coverage

Voschix (talk) 18:34, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Done Stickee (talk) 03:37, 24 December 2015 (UTC)

Change the URL for the official Street View product page

Hello Wiki admins,

I'm the current Webmaster for Google's Street View pages, and we're about to undergo a change in the URL structure.

The current URL in the External links section is as follows: http://maps.google.com/intl/en/help/maps/streetview/

The new canonical URL is: https://www.google.com/streetview

Can you tell me the best way to go about having that happen, or would you permit me edit access for this particular page?

Thanks in advance.

Rupertbreheny (talk) 18:47, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

External links modified

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Sockpuppet investigations

I've opened investigation about users Sjnester, Diretor Adobe, Compain Here and Danisian, who make disruptive edits on this article. You can participate in discussion at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Sjnester. --Triggerhippie4 (talk) 07:28, 24 October 2016 (UTC)