Google Street View is already working with 50 countries, covering more than 8 million kilometers.

The last achievement of Street View is the start of work in Hungary and Lesotho (a state in southern Africa, if that). Now the service is already operating in 50 different countries, which is undoubtedly a major achievement and merit of the project team. Among other things, the company conducted the largest one-time update of the system, adding about 560 thousand kilometers of roads in 14 different countries, including France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore and Thailand.

In October, the service launched an update, which brought with it 400 thousand kilometers of roads, including regions such as the USA, Great Britain, Italy, Sweden and some other countries. The current update has clearly added several different kinds of well-known tourist projects, including the Pena National Palace in Portugal, the Sha Tin Che Kung Palace in Gokong, and the Kilkenny Castle in Ireland.
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It is worth noting that the service is not that old anymore (although sometimes it seems to me that it exists forever). It appeared in 2007, covering only five US cities. After six years, service coverage is already about 8 million kilometers . I do not even know how long it takes to get around / go around all this, even if it is purely virtual. Probably the whole life is not enough. By the way, this service is also used as entertainment - in fact, many users are trying to find something interesting on their streets and on foreign cities that they can share with others (for example, a dead girl on the road who turned out to be very much alive, or is there a donkey from Botswana ).

Of course, in the history of the service, there were also troubles, such as problems with disturbing the privacy of citizens of different countries, problems with intercepting data from WiFi networks that are open to the public and others. Nevertheless, the service is very relevant for many, and for some tourists / travelers - so generally indispensable.

Via theverge