Hawaii comes to Google Street View
Google has announced that they are now covering all the states in the USA in their Google Street View.
The company has just added visuals from Hawaii which helped them to reach this milestone.
Google Street View now has imagery from Oahu and Maui.
They are working on expanding [...]

Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland now on Google Street View
Google Maps team has announced that they have launched Street View feature in a couple of new countries.
These new locations are: Taiwan, Portugal, and Switzerland.
Google has also now made available more special interest regions on the Street View service including:
Thunderhill Raceway Park
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
Also added [...]

Google reshooting Street View pictures in Japan
US based search engine giant Google has revealed that they are going to reshoot photos in Japan for their Street View service.
They decided to reshoot all the photos after complaints raised by Japanese authorities about invasion of privacy.
Google said that the photos would now be taken at a lower [...]

Google Street View now in UK
US based search engine giant Google has launched its Street View service in UK.
They are covering regions in as many as 25 cities in Britain including Aberdeen and Southampton.
Google also launched the Street View service in Netherlands.
Google claims that they are already covering 22,369 miles of [...]

Google Street View now feature user submitted photos
Search engine giant Google has further enhanced the usability of their Google Street View feature by adding support for user submitted photos.
This service use the photos uploaded by regular users through Google-owned Panoramio.
Google spoke about this new enhancements: “Now you can browse user-contributed photos that have been [...]

Google Street View criticized in Japan over privacy issues
Google Street View feature is being criticized in Japan over privacy issues.
A group of Japanese journalists, professors and lawyers have demanded that Google should remove the images taken on the roads in the various cities in the country.
The search engine giant is currently providing images from [...]

Britain’s Information Commissioner ok with Google Street View
Google has received the go ahead from the UK’s Information Commissioner to launch the Street View service in the market.
Information Commissioner said in a statement: “We are satisfied that Google is putting in place adequate safeguards to avoid any risk to the privacy or safety of individuals, including [...]

North Oaks asks Google to remove their images from Street View
North Oaks residents are asking the search engine giant Google to remove the images taken in their locations from their Street View service on Google Maps.
The city has a unique distinction as the roads are privately owned by the residents. They also enforce a trespassing [...]

Google Street View could become a legal problem in Europe

EU’s data protection agency has said that Google’s Street View service could cause privacy concerns in the European country.
Google has already started putting US cities imagery on their web service. And they could next aim to extend the feature to popular European destinations.
European Union Data [...]

Google now blurring faces on Street View
Search engine giant Google has revealed that they are now using a new technology to blur the faces of people on their Street View service.
It would however take them some months to implement this change throughout the entire database.
The company said in a blog post that they have now [...]