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A Google Street View car was showcased on the Google campus in Mountain View, California, in October 2010. Google Street View will blur content for any user who makes a request, in addition to the automatic blurring of faces and licence plates. [ 48 ]
Discover when, where, and how we collect 360 imagery. Meet Google's colorful Street View fleet and learn how we collect 360 imagery to power the world map.
- It Was A Frankenstein-Looking Car.
- It Was Going to Have to Be Expensive to Be Comprehensive.
- Collect as Much Data as Possible and Figure It out.
- We Saw Traffic Go Through The roof.
- We Wanted to Connect people.
Before I spoke with Luc Vincent, engineering director, and Daniel Filip, engineering manager, at Google Maps, I had done quite a bit of research into the history of the Google Maps product as a whole. What I didn’t know is how “pie in the sky” the concept of Street View actually was, which is an easy misconception to have once a technology has beco...
Working on a project at Google with your 20 percent time is only part of the battle. Getting other people to join your team and getting it approved is a whole separate hurdle. Vincent told me that once they collected all of this data, people started piecing it together, and the demos made sense. In Q3 of 2005, Vincent and his team gave a tech talk ...
Google Street View, and everything Google does pretty much, is all about the data it collects. In many ways, Google is extremely obsessed about collecting all types of data. This approach has ruffled the feathers of those who feel like their privacy is being invaded, but the company takes the approach of “collect as much as you can, make sense of i...
Google Street View launched officially in 2007 and was only available for San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver. The cameras at that time were 5 megapixels, which is barely what we have on our phones today. Now they’re 75 megapixels; try to wrap your brain around that one. It was an immediate success, even though the Street View team...
Why would you stop with outside imagery? Why not get panoramic imagery indoors, especially in famous museums? The Street View Trolley was born. On indoor Street View, Vincent said: You’re starting to get the picture. If it doesn’t exist, that doesn’t stop forward-thinking Googlers. Once something works just a little bit and it seems cool and useful...
Mar 9, 2013 · TechCrunch has published an engrossing piece covering the full history of Google's controversial Street View project, from its early days as a camera stuck on Larry Page's car to its...
- Louis Goddard
Jul 3, 2014 · Today, Google uses its fancy camera-equipped Google Maps Street View cars to capture real-life images of cities for its navigation service.
- Henry Blodget
May 28, 2015 · In 2007, Google Street View began mirroring our landscapes starting with several cities in the United States. It has since photographed most of Europe, North America, Latin America, and...
Apr 4, 2021 · With Google sending its Street View cars around various countries for over a decade, the timeline feature is great for looking back at how your area used to look.
