Talk:Google Street View

Controversial UK Photos

I found some here (http://www.miley5.net/content/news.php?id=3). Should these be listed? Ilovealysonstoner (talk) 06:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Windows Live Search

Maybe it might be worth noting that Windows Live Search had this feature about a year before Google did. RoamingComedian (talk) 21:31, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Streetview API

Google recently release Streetview as part of the Google Maps API (March 27th), definitely worth a mention. Anyone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.205.117.6 (talk) 14:38, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

Linking to page

If a coordinate on Wikipedia can link to Google Maps, can a street view picture also be linked? MMetro (talk) 20:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes. When you are on the Google Maps page with the particular point on Street View open, click "link this page." Make the link given an external link on the Wikipedia page, and when it is clicked on in the future, it'll lead straight to that same location on Street View. I have done this a lot myself, and I have seen some pages in which others do the same.Sebwite (talk) 20:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I first saw this at Barrington Hills, Illinois (See Google Street View) and I'm wondering if there are better ways to do it, any Wikipedia guidelines on where and how to use it. What's the point? Well it is cool. Can it be overused - yes, we could link almost every photo in the US and not only show where it is but what it looks like "now." My questions on its use in Wikipedia are almost endless. Any feedback? Smallbones (talk) 20:18, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Names and numbers of cities

When describing the number of cities introduced one a particular day, that number should reflect the number of new camera icons Google has added, not the actual number of cities included. Most icons include multiple cities, but are named after only the main city they cover. For example, the Los Angeles area street view includes many large cities in the Greater Los Angeles area, such as San Bernardino and Riverside, but there is only a single camera icon for the entire region. Also, the cities should be named exactly as they are on the Google site. The Dallas icon should be named "Dallas," not "Dallas-Ft. Worth," as this is the way it is shown on the Google site.

It is unclear in defining exactly what is a city versus a town or suburb. But in the listings under what cities and how many were introduced on particular days, it should reflect Google's camera icons. If there are more details beyond that, they can be described in a separate paragraph.

San Jose is the 10th largest city in the U.S., while Juneau has a population of just 30,000. But Juneau has an icon of its own, while San Jose is considered by Google to be a part of the San Francisco area. Therefore, San Jose should not be treated as a separated city.Sebwite (talk) 03:09, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Future cities

I actually think this may be someone who I know, but I am not sure. I have several acquaintences who I discuss Street View with. I will not identify this person here, though. This is not someone who actively uses Wikipedia to my knowledge. Sebwite (talk) 04:02, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello, i saw last week 2 google cars in cologne (germany), i made also a picture during one car was taking gas. But i don't know if it is allow to upload and where i can do. Best wishes. Marcel —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.143.77.11 (talk) 23:34, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Evolution

IP edit (86.221.159.211) - no reference:

• On March 27, 2008,more cities were introduced: Seattle,Rome,Tokyo,London,Cork,Paris,Montréal,Toronto,Quebec,Vancouver,Winnipeg,Milan,Moscow

Not true as far as I know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.212.122.247 (talk) 22:58, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

This is totally inaccurate, so I removed it.Sebwite (talk) 02:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Shortening paragraphs

It seems as though this article could use some shortening. In the Areas included section, the first paragraph includes a very lengthy example. This example appears unnecessary since all of the first five cities have since been expanded. FlagFreak (talk) 23:03, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Similar services section, external links

Please note, the similar services section with paragraphs describing competing services is here to compare and contrast SV with similar services provided by other companies, and particularly show which cities have been introduced by other companies but not Google.

The external links to maps of individual cities are here for verification.Sebwite (talk) 16:03, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

This article is about said Google Street View, not about MapJack, LOCATION VIEW, yada yada yada. Would we add Liberia, Somalia, Malaysia to a "Similar nations" section in United States, with comparison to the others? No, because that article is about the United States and this article is about Google Street View.

Also, Wikipedia is not an advertising service, and it appears that the other services were being advertised here as better, which is POV.

Why would the extrenal links to each of the Street View locations be for verification? Why not verify every single location to make it fair, then? --FlagFreak ^TALK 23:19, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I've removed all those useless external links. Listing every single city covered is crazy, and linking to every single one of them is even crazier. Not to mention unencyclopedic. --FlagFreak ^TALK 21:13, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Minneapolis

We have a story of a suburb north of Saint Paul who has requested Google to remove its photos. Technically they had violated private property because most of the suburb North Oaks, Minnesota is a gated community. It has since removed the gates and simply posted private-access signs. Also it may be prudent to mention that during Googles filming of Minneapolis, they had not completed some streets when the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge collapsed. Meaning they got all the highways done but by the time they got to streets, the bridge had collapsed. In photos along University Ave SE you will see barriers leading to the highway while you can actually travel on the highway during its construction. .:DavuMaya:. 05:25, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Newark

I have reinstated Newark on the list of updates regarding the development section of the article for June 10th. The removal of Newark from the list is unwarranted as it is seperate from New York state being the largest city in New Jersey state. The facility to use Google Street View did not exist for Newark prior to June 10. The particular section is referenced and footnoted from "Google LatLong Blog" which lists Newark, New Jersey as a new city addition.

It is also not advertising as the link is to the Wikipedia article regarding Newark, New Jersey. It is completely neutral as Newark is the largest city in the state of New Jersey. Fresno, Bakersfield and Sacramento are also listed and lie within the same state therefore the removal of Newark is unwarranted. --Enya2008 (talk) 22:16, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I see Bakersfield has been removed due to not having a camera icon. In that case nevermind about Newark, Thanks. --Enya2008 (talk) 01:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Anyway, listing additional cities in this section is not a violation of Wikipedia's advertising policy. It is not a violation of any policy for that matter. The issue is that in this section, the concensus has been that only those locations that Google has marked with a camera icon would be listed here. Sebwite (talk) 01:36, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Coverage map

Since List of Google Street View locations will proably be deleted, I was thinking there should proably be a coverage map like that shows this. So it would be something like this: Image:Distribution H. leucocephalus.png-- Coasttocoast (talk) 22:24, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I have another map on my blog (scroll down). It could be uploaded with a website screenshot copyright tag, but it doesn't have Alaska. --FlagFreak ^TALK 16:16, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

How do I edit the coverage map to include the latest cities covered by Street View? MSalmon (talk) 19:20, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

The image is an SVG, so can't be edited with Paint. Inkscape is free and I highly recommend it. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 19:45, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Ok thanks, I will try Inkscape MSalmon (talk) 19:47, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I can't seem to get it to work on Inkscape, how do I do it? MSalmon (talk) 20:07, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Right click 'Save Page As' from here, then open it in Inkscape. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 21:02, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I have done that and updated the map, now what? MSalmon (talk) 21:03, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

The image is at Wikimedia Commons so requires to either log in there or register and then at the bottom of the image page click 'Upload a new version of this file'. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 21:08, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I don't see "Upload a new version of this file" on the page MSalmon (talk) 21:16, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

The problem being that new users will not have the facility of uploading images yet, which is a bad case this time. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 21:21, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

If I give you the link to my update, will you be able to do it for me? MSalmon (talk) 21:22, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Yeah I can do that. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 21:25, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

It is saved on my computer in my documents, so how do I give it to you? MSalmon (talk) 21:32, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

You can tell me the changes you have made or email me you email address which then you will be able to send me an email with it attached to it. -- [[ axg ⁞⁞ talk ]] 21:39, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

I have only updated Canada and Czech Republic with dark blue, that is all MSalmon (talk) 21:42, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

It is ok, I have merged by two Wiki accounts into one so I can use both Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, so I can upload it now MSalmon (talk) 21:48, 7 October 2009 (UTC) Done

State-by-state paragraphs

For now, I replaced the paragraphs that have long been a part of this article that describe coverage in various states or paragraphs. These paragraphs are also in the middle of an update that may take several days, as I am trying to make the writing style in such a way that they flow into one another. They are important in which they describe the evolution of GSV in each area. If this makes the article look too cluttered, it may be worth starting a new subarticle, and placing the in there. Sebwite (talk) 06:15, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

See WP:3RR. Please be careful. Having an archive of Street View locations by state is absolutely crazy. Should we make a list of Google Earth satellite imagery by state or country? No. Why? See WP:NOTDIRECTORY. If you would like to present this list in a format you are working on, then I will move it to your userspace for you to work on it there, because it definitely does not belong here in its current form. --FlagFreak ^TALK 12:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

I have not broken 3RR, which I am familiar with. These edits have come on different days, with a continual discussion throughout. The section you are referring to is under construction, and gradual construction or modification of existing text does not constitute test edits. Sebwite (talk) 15:48, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Merger Proposal

If Development of Google Street View survives AfD, this discussion is to determine whether or not relevant portions (or the whole) of the page may be merged into Google Street View. As this discussion will determine, that merger can be anywhere from a redirect (no substantive information transferred) to a complete cut and paste. Thanks. Protonk (talk) 23:22, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

• Oppose Google Street View already has a table in the Development section; we don't need more. --FlagFreak ^TALK 20:23, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

• Well, what if the other article survives afd? I'm suggesting merge any content that is helpful and get rid of an unneeded fork. I don't think merging means we are required to merge any actual content. I'm not proposing that we insert the entirety of the Development of Google Street View into this page. If everything is redundant then we are !voting on a redirect, basically. Protonk (talk) 03:35, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

• From the looks of it, it won't survive AfD. If it does, then that's fine, too. The author of that page has put together a long detailed list (quite well,actually) of Street View's development, but it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, and the development of Street View is so non-notable that it should only be in one sentence, and it can be. --FlagFreak ^TALK 12:42, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

• Disagree that it can be said in one sentence. Besides different cities being introduced on different days in eight sets of introductions so far, the coverage levels of various areas have been expanded from what they originally were at various times to an increased level. This has been followed by the media and drawn a lot of attention. Sebwite (talk) 20:00, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

• Okay, probably a few sentences. How about this:

“ The development of the service started in May 2007, adding major cities and national parks in the United States first, then moving on to the Tour de France route. ”

No wasn't that easy? Eventually, there's going to be so much media coverage on so many updates, that this development section would become HUMONGOUS according to your method. In can be done in a few statements easily, like above. --FlagFreak ^TALK 20:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Europe (is not official)

Most of these places seem to be the claims of individual users and they're impossible to prove. I have taken out all but the sourced material. Also changed the title "Europe (is not official)" - which isn't really English - to "United Kingdom", which should of course be changed back if some non-UK places are added. --Lo2u ^{(T • C)} 10:25, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Australia

Just a heads up. It isn't active yet, but will be sometime today so i haven't update the article. Will include just about every populated area in Australia. http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24130293-5014108,00.html

Image:Google Street View car.jpg

Regarding this edit, is the edit summary correct? I examined the Google Street View image that the image links to[1] and the image looks OK to me, right down to shadows and parked cars. Not being from the USA, I can't be sure though. --AussieLegend (talk) 23:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Proposed "Areas Incuded" Criteria

Every once in a while I notice someone has added what appears to be their hometown (stress on town) to the areas included table. Could we establish a set of criteria to determine what cities to list in the "other major cities/areas" column? What I would recommend:

1) For cities to be included, must have surface streets largely to mostly included.

  * Exemption for Elkton, MD until Maryland is further updated.
  * Possible exemption for Daytona Beach, FL as the city's major throughways are included.

2) The most populous city in an isolated streetview region will be included. (aka "principal city")

3) Any national parks in an isolated streetview region will be included.

4) For additional cities to be included with the cities in criterions 2 and 3, it must meet one of the following:

  a) have a population of at least 50,000 (not in metro-area of principal city)
  b) have a population of at least 100,000 (in the metro-area of principal city)
  c) be a state capital
  d) be a historically or culturally important town (e.g. Williamsburg, VA)
  e) be the largest city included in its state (e.g. Wilmington, DE...in Philly metro but under 100k)

5) Since suburb population can differ greatly by region and the date of a city's growth spurt, only the largest and most geographically distinct suburbs would be included (CA has 67 cities > 100k, most of which are simply suburbs of LA and won't really give the reader new information but would clutter the table.)

6) Common sense can always be used.

How do you guys feel about this?

Krazy19Karl (talk) 02:16, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

When I first created the table, I thought it over really hard. I decided to use the Rand McNally Road Atlas to set a standard here. I listed just about every city that was shown on the US map, and excluded just about every city that was not shown on the US map. I then made some common-sense modifications. These included adding a few places that have some high significance (like Anaheim, CA, which is home to Disneyland and a major league baseball team), and exluded a few that were merely suburbs (like Joliet, IL). I also added Modesto and Stockton.

On Wikipedia, using numbers as a standard does not work well. Also, calling something "historically or culturally important town" is not fully objective because many little towns have be a historical and cultural importance, and drawing the line is not easy. You can say Hannibal, MO (doesn't have SV now, but probably will some day) has historical importance as the hometown of Mark Twain, or Independence, MO has historical importance as the hometown of Harry Truman. But once again, if it is someone's hometown, where do you draw the line how famous a person must be?

Some criteria have little or no room for argument, like being the capital of a state, the largest city in a state, or the largest city in an isolated blue chunk. Also, many metropolitan areas are named after certain cities. For example, San Jose is one of the top 10 cities in the US, and is a metro area of its own, yet is considered by Google as part of San Francisco. You do not want to exclude a place like that. At the same time, you obviously cannot list every suburb of every city.

For one thing, you may, at least in most cases, limit listings to one place per county (with rare exceptions). This will enable, for example, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach to each be listed, but nothing more from the tri-county region. In Virginia this is a little harder, since all cities are independent. Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, and Williamsburg are all clustered together within 50 miles, but each have a distinct identity at a national viewpoint.

Regardless, a small town of 3000 that means nothing to anyone other than its own residents would be excluded. Sebwite (talk) 05:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

If you're going to set criteria for the table(s) you need to set consistent criteria for all countries in all table(s), not just the US. In Australia, many significant areas don't meet any of the above criteria. --AussieLegend (talk) 07:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I do not have a road atlas for Australia like I do for North America. When I created the Australia chart, I only listed those cities with camera icons. I felt it was best to let an Australian or someone familiar with Australia do the rest. The bottom line is, we need common sense. Sebwite (talk) 18:50, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

I agree that common sense should prevail. In New South Wales, Australia, the only cities that have camera icons are Sydney, Broken Hill, Goulburn and Tamworth and yet GSV covers significantly more than that. To make matters worse, and to show the lack of relevance of having a camera icon, Newcastle and Wollongong, the second and third largest cities in the state, don't have icons while the more minor cities of Broken Hill, Goulbourn and Tamworth do. Other cities larger than those 3 also do not have icons but are covered. e.g. Maitland. Personally, I think the table is becoming redundant, at least as far as Australia is concerned, because the coverage here is fairly extensive. Of more significance are the areas not covered. For example, the Stuart Highway is covered almost all the the way north but, rather mysteriously, stops at the southern end of Katherine. Just as mysteriously, coverage begins at the western side of Katherine heading towards Western Australia. There is no coverage of Katherine and points north including Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory. I think that common sense would dictate that these, and other similar, areas be noted. --AussieLegend (talk) 00:24, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

With the criteria what about "the city must have a urban population of at least 40,000."? Bidgee (talk) 00:36, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

That limits Australia to 30 locations which is misleading because GSV coverage is far more extensive than that. A lot of locations covered by GSV don't even have nearby cities yet the areas are significant. --AussieLegend (talk) 02:35, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Confirmed Street View Sightings

It had to happen sooner or later...a Google Maps mashup showing confirmed sightings of the Street View cars in Europe!

The map can be viewed on The Register, and clicking a car symbol displays the photograph taken by the spotter, together with the location. As El Reg is a UK periodical, the majority of the sightings are from the UK, but cars have also been spotted in Rome, Turin, Munich, near Paris and several locations in The Netherlands.

Looking at the map, it may be reasonable to assume some European locations will be added to Google Maps in due course, with fairly extensive coverage from the UK due whenever photography, processing and testing are completed. As it's impossible to predict when the photography will go live, possibly just add a list of countries where the Street View cars have been verifiably spotted - assuming we can find a reliable source/reliable sources for the list (compiling it ourselves would probably contravene WP:NOR). Mittfh (talk) 01:39, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Flickr Group regarding Street View Cars

You can check out this group @ flickr regularly to see which new signhtings of the Googlenetta (Google SV car) in countries/municpalities/cities have been posted: http://www.flickr.com/groups/googlestreetviewcar/discuss/72157606121546238/ i keep this list as up-to-date as possible! 79.219.115.63 (talk) 10:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

People preparing for Street View?

Today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had a front-page article (here) about people who discovered that the Google car was going through their neighborhood and produced a joke scene, complete with marching band, firefighters rescuing a cat from a tree, and swordfighters. Would it be appropriate to include a section about such being done? I'm aware that this might lead people to add OR-ish anecdotes of doing the same in other places, but I think it would be quite reasonable to have at least a small section with as reliable a source as one of the USA's leading newspapers. Nyttend (talk) 02:24, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

To see what I mean: go to this view and select Street View for the eastern side of the long stretch between intersections, below the "400" along Jackson Street to the north. Nyttend (talk) 02:30, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

flickr of this happening: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattressfactory/3026977595/ flickr group on Street View cars (Googlenettas): http://www.flickr.com/groups/googlestreetviewcar/ 79.219.115.63 (talk) 10:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

insignificant neighborhoods but not main streets

Has anyone noticed that there are parts of major cities that they just stopped on but they went into small crap subdivisions for no reason? Has anyone run across anything from google saying why they do that? I was trying to see a rather large intersection but they only spent time imaging Joe Bobs broken ass pickup on some side street.

I've seen similar things and would guess that they avoided construction zones, train crossing delays, maybe schools letting out, etc. Smallbones (talk) 15:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Today

Street view added alot of us cities, maybe we should add that to the article.--Accdude92 (talk) 15:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

These were added on December 9. I took care of adding the major cities from these additions to Template:GSVtable already. Sebwite (talk) 19:07, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Future section

The "Future" section says, "In the more immediate future, Google plans to release Street View for various Canadian cities...." The information in the reference is over a year old. Is there more recent information somewhere? roger6106 (talk) 02:54, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Is the US location list still needed?

Back when only a selected portion of the US was covered by Street View, having a list indicating what areas were covered makes sense. Now that virtually all of the US is covered by Street View, I think this list no longer serves a purpose. If anything it should be replaced by a list of places that AREN'T as yet covered (such as Blaine, Washington, for example). 23skidoo (talk) 14:13, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

You're wright - That information is not useful (is too long) TouLouse (talk) 20:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Agree, remove it. Trying to maintain some purportedly authoratative list, to keep up with Google's continual update of its maps product, is a growing exercise in lunacy. Twredfish (talk) 14:19, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I removed GSVtable - to be easy to navigate, we need a new article Google Street View locations - TouLouse (talk) 14:24, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

This should be neither a separate list article, nor a template. It has been deleted by moderated discussion once already. Replace with cited link to http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=68384 Twredfish (talk) 23:48, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Google Street View Driver...

Hi, How can I apply for Google Street View Driver of the car? I'd happy to do it for as long as it takes to finish the job...

Thank you Bohdan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.74.75.115 (talk) 11:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Answer: You can't apply directly! google normally post anonymous ads in local papers and/or online websites asking for professional drivers with extensive knowledge of the area... If you are invited to the interview only then you will find out who you might work for!!! There's no way interested parties can find out if the ad is for Google or not!!! 79.219.115.63 (talk) 10:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

More cities in USA

Well, I found that a lot of cities(town) just have main street going through it and not in detailed, for example, Grand Islandand Miles City and the street view coverage of USA still needs to expand. Also, lots of rural roads don't have coverage. Also,some part of USA, especially Vermont,Ohio,Idiania.New York,Michigan,Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Mississippi. I also want to know why google like to seperate two cities buy not given some coverage in the middle of two cities. I want to have continous streetview and I and drive from New York City to San Francisco directly.

This text was recently added to the article: "On March 18, 2009, extensive coverage of the United States was added including most of the coverage of Delaware, North Dakota, Rhode Island, and South Dakota and more location at Michigan especially near Marquette, the date now have fewer coverage is in central-northwest USA. Especially Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Minnesota."

What the hell does that mean? Do they not teach English in Marquette, Michigan? Someone, please make heads or tails of this, or delete.24.18.218.123 (talk) 12:09, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

More update

Hi, when will the next update occur? Will there have more US coverage or other coverage included.13:16, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

UK - well-known spots being blacked out?

I've heard rumours that several major public buildings have been blacked out already after "security" concerns, only a day after the UK launch, but I can't find much hard evidence of this. I have found one for myself, which gives the idea: it's the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. The following links go directly to Street View images at Google Maps:

• from the left - works fine
• from the right - also works fine
• from head-on - blacked out!

From the working photos either side, I can't see any obvious reason why the head-on shot has been blocked out rather than simply blurring the right places. It's only a guess that someone at the RLB itself has asked "for security, you know" (pretty pointlessly anyway, given the number of photos of this particular building around the web and in print!) so obviously that's no good as a source. Is there any solid coverage of this? I appreciate it's very early days yet, but if I notice this in the first 24 hours then if it's widespread I'm sure others will in due course. Loganberry (Talk) 14:35, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

It's now working again. *shrugs* Loganberry (Talk) 16:54, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

updates.

What areas of New Brunswick, NJ are updated?, I just checked there and nothing new as opposed to the major highways are updated in blue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.70.72 (talk) 17:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Next Update

Hi, does anyone know when the next lot of updates are going to take place? MSalmon (talk) 18:11, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Early May - Germany, other cities in Spain...and Europe...TouLouse (talk) 18:17, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, what about the UK? MSalmon (talk) 18:18, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

In UK will be added all cities, towns, and villages until 2011. In Asia next update: Singapore (May or June 2009) TouLouse (talk) 18:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Cool, how do u know this? MSalmon (talk) 18:21, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Where are you from Msalmon? I'm from Bucharest, Romania. I've been seen Google Street View cars in my city in autumn of 2008. Love it!TouLouse (talk) 18:25, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm from Leicester in the UK, my city hasn't been added on yet although it has been done MSalmon (talk) 18:26, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I now it because this is the manner of the Google. If one Google Car have been seen (Street View)in a location , for example in January, the images will be added on the site after 6 or 7 months. Sorry for bad English. TouLouse (talk) 18:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I see MSalmon (talk) 18:30, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Google Cars in the World ([2]) TouLouse (talk) 18:47, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Any date yet for the next updatew? MSalmon (talk) 21:47, 1 May 2009

100 days after March 18 :( ... TouLouse (talk) 07:55, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

(UTC) Can't say all, can google street view car can capture any lane, roads, streets in UK? No! If I can have the image of 10 Downing Street. When can google add all the villages, towns and cities in US? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheuk18me94 (talk • contribs) 10:41, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Is the next update still 100 days after March 18 because Disneyland Paris went on recently? MSalmon (talk) 19:10, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

100 days after the last update ... so June 10+ 100 days ... TouLouse (talk) 19:18, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

So now we have to wait another 3 months for the next updates MSalmon (talk) 19:20, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm disgusted but all seems like that...:( TouLouse (talk) 19:23, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Me too, because surley they have to put a bulk up sometime soon MSalmon (talk) 19:24, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

?

In what order are these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View#Areas_included) listed? Is it chronological? It's hard to skim through and look for any certain place in there. - Nessa Ancalimë ♥ (talk) 09:51, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

I want to volunteer in this project

Lets say, I want to have every single corner of Odessa, Ukraine where I am originally from to be goodle streeted. I live in USA, yet I can come there, find someone with a good car, and take a ride. Or I have lots of frinds there who can do it .... so what is the next step? GK tramrunner (talk) 12:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

If you're thinking of volunteering for a project, I'd try Openstreetmap. C2r (talk) 13:24, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Expansion

Wow Google Street view has just expanded greatly such that it covers much countryside in New York. The photos seem to be two years old (2 summers ago)-Anyone know the rules on that; I assume they have to be old enough for obvious reasons. see http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&q=stanley%20new%20york&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl Daniel Christensen (talk) 16:57, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Cities have coverage just in main roads

Lots of towns or cities have just coverage in main road and some just have little coverage for example Sioux Falls,Marqutte and Burlington, And even some big cites like Los Angeles, but still lack of coverage on El Segundo,Santa Ana,And there is no coverage in Grand Island too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.18.170.208 (talk) 11:10, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Answer: That's when the Googlenetta just passes thru to get from Point A to Point B... most of the time drivers leave the hardware in scan mode. 79.219.115.63 (talk) 10:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

New proposal

I have proposed a new WikiProject Street View. The purpose is to place in every article on a specific point, if available, an external link that shows the point on GSV. Sebwite (talk) 23:48, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Well...You're right..this section could be added in the templates and infoboxes . (for example: in articles about streets, cities, sport events, tourist attractions, buildings, disaster or any incidents locations) TouLouse (talk) 10:31, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Can't believe this article has expanded so much! So proud. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phlegmbuoyant (talk • contribs) 11:44, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Link to commercial websites

I am Alexandre Poltorak from Elphel, Inc. We noticed the recent changes of this article on our access log. Wikipedia do not like direct links to commercial websites. (What I fully understand) We already got some problems with an article addition about our hardware on the Open_source_hardware as discussed here: User_talk:Thumperward/Archive_33#Removal_of_Elphel_camera_from_.22Open_Source_Hardware.22. After that incident we prohibited direct links from wikipedia.org. So as I understand the Wikipedia way to do is to link to this internal nonexistent article and add a request for this article: Wikipedia:Requested_articles, or write it ;). Regards. --Polto (talk) 18:32, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Greece flap?

Apparently Greece is getting pissy about the street view thing.

• http://searchengineland.com/greece-bans-google-street-view-19100
• http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/13/greece.google.street.view.blocked/index.html?iref=newssearch

--98.232.181.201 (talk) 06:05, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Rightfully so.

Go Greece! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.190.22 (talk) 03:08, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Updates

It seem like street view updates every 3 months, I find that ridiculous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.70.72 (talk) 02:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Why? And the unofficial update interval is 6-12 months, 6 for major metro areas, 12 months for smaller communities that made it onto the "list".... 79.219.115.63 (talk) 10:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

June 5, 2009 - Smart Navigation

It seem like a teleportation. That's amazing! TouLouse (talk) 11:10, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Why does it not work in all places? MSalmon (talk) 18:58, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

NJ updated

Where in NJ is updated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.70.72 (talk) 04:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Street View trike

Where should info about the Street View trike go? Here are some sorces: USA Today, The Guardian, CNET UK, and some pictures. -Lөvөl 17:12, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Solving crime section needs a fix

As the article is locked down to anonymous editors, could someone please remove the reference to privacy advocates in the Role in Solving Crime section? It's almost word for word the same as the wording used in the linked article. 68.146.81.123 (talk) 14:18, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

Google street view car made it to Hawaii? how can a car make from the US main to Hawaii when there's a Pacific Ocean in between? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.70.72 (talk) 14:13, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Heathrow Airport

Why have they taken the pictures off of Heathrow Airport because I am going on Tuesday 11 August and I wanted to see where the car park was? MSalmon (talk) 21:35, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Google Street View in future - video? (yellowbird)

I saw that and I'm very happy. That's amazing! [3] [4] TouLouse (talk) 07:32, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Viewing issue on a PC

Until recently, moving along the street by clicking on the arrow paused then displayed the new view, sometimes a section at a time.

Now, moving along the street by clicking on the arrow immediately smears the display then later displays the new view.

Is this something changed in Streetview itself or is it something to do with the way the display is produced having changed? Does Streetview use Flash or something else?

Does anyone know how to put it back as it was please? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.210.223 (talk) 07:28, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it has changed to make it faster to navigate along the street. MSalmon (talk) 10:46, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for replying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.38.27 (talk) 13:55, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Google Street View Stories

I removed the "Google Street View Stories" section only to have it reverted. Does anybody really think this section brings anything relevant to the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.96.184 (talk) 06:08, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

More street view in city/town/village please

Lots of Rural area of USA is added. But not many town's street view is added. Hope google will add more town's strret view on next update. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.18.170.144 (talk) 09:57, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

High Quality?

Where are the sources that some areas are in high quality, or that you can take a 25 mph drive along streets that are in high quality? I will remove this if nobody provides sources, since I can't find any myself. Kak Dela? (talk) 17:14, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Fair to use street view screenshots on Wikipedia?

Could I take a screenshot or a photo of my screen of a street view image and use it on Wikipeida??? MANY useful article pictures could be made this way... Daniel Christensen (talk) 03:25, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

No. If you attempt to do that, Google will probably serve a Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act takedown notice on the Wikimedia Foundation, and your account will probably be permanently banned. A screenshot of Street View would be fair use only in the context of an article about Street View itself, but not anything else. Yes, copyright is a pain in the neck, which is why a lot of Wikipedia editors, myself included, use Wikipedia an excuse to develop photography as a personal hobby (see the huge list of photos I've taken on my user page). --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:54, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

No street view in High Point

There is no street view in Hign Point, NC but have coverage in the surrounding. I feel surprised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheuk18me94 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Argleton

I removed the reference to Argleton from the Glitches section. This has nothing to do with Street View. It's an oddity involving Google Maps, but it has no business being in this article. 68.146.81.123 (talk) 16:10, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Driving

What does Google Street view do? Do they drive the cars all arouhnd the world? And why does it take upto 90 days to update

24.228.70.72 (talk) 03:28, 25 November 2009 (UTC)nextbarker

• • Talk pages are for discussing improvements to an article. Questions like this would be better directed to WikiAnswers or Google itself. 68.146.81.123 (talk) 15:01, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

Don't misuse "part" in editing GSV Coverage Table

Don't misuse "part" in editing GSV Coverage Table. Cities just have main road in not counted as part. They shouldn't be listed in GSV coverage table! Every cities have part coverage is meant that have coverage at least 40% of the total streets in that city!. So I didn't addSioux Falls and Cedar Rapids. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheuk18me94 (talk • contribs) 10:10, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

The section 'privacy issues' should made in an article 'Criticsm of Street View'

70% of this article is consist of privacy issues,so it'll better if we convert this section into an independant article 'criticsm of street view'.

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by Coercorash (talk • contribs) 03:21, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Use of GSV images within Wikipedia articles

I have been trying to figure out how to use GSV images in articles in a way that complies with Google's guidelines for the free use of their images. There is a discussion I started on the topic at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Embedding Google Street View images onto Wikipedia pages. Sebwite (talk) 04:50, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

GSV images would be very useful in Wikipedia articles. If allowed, this is a very handy way of providing images of many different location in their respective articles without going through the trouble of physically traveling to the locations camera-ready. Google actually allows street view images to be embedded in any website, provided that they link straight to Google's site. But they do not allow screenshots to be uploaded. (You can read about it here)

The question is, is there a way to embed an external image like this onto Wikipedia, thereby meeting Google's guidelines? Sebwite (talk) 01:42, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Template:GSVtable / Should it be a list article?

I notice that in the past few days, the list of coverage by US state / other countries and regions was externalized rather than included as a template, as had apparently been the original intent. I agree that it's probably long enough to be its own article, but it should be titled something like List of cities with Google Street View coverage. A reference that says just

Please go to Template:GSVtable

seems not really in keeping with the intended purpose of templates, because templates are not intended to be stand-alone articles. If no one objects within a couple of days, anyone may feel free to port that template to an appropriately-titled list article. - PhilipR (talk) 22:42, 28 December 2009(UTC) - (EDITED)

Previously, this was just that. After two AfDs, it was deleted, and this had been agreed upon as a replacement. Because of that, it is a good idea that before going back to a separate article as this was, we discuss whether or not it can sustain itself as an article again. (see nomination #1 and nomination #2)

I am not against the idea myself. I am just concerned about the possibility of deletion on this basis. Sebwite (talk) 23:11, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

That template is completely non-useful. In future GSV will add thousands locations in entire world. In fact, we have a development section in GSV article. That is useful. In my opinion, we should start TfD for GSV Table.TouLouse (talk) 09:05, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I didn't opine in either AfD process, but I don't see it as unencyclopedic, non-notable, or inappropriate for inclusion in WP. I do agree with Sebwite that there's no point in shuffling things again and again without reaching consensus. AFAICT, the only sense in which the AfD discussions reached consensus was dependent on inclusion of the template in the article. But someone boldly removed the template instance from the article, so my inference is that consensus has now collapsed. - Cheers, PhilipR (talk) 23:57, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Also, I just added back the template instance, not because I think that's necessarily the best long-term setup but because it appeared to be a previous compromise that's now being called into question by a subsequent edit. - PhilipR (talk) 00:03, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

There is a side of me that favors revisiting the issue. Under no circumstances should some list of areas included be abolished. It is actually very important information, as it gives a sense of what the service is like, and how it varies from one country to the next. But given the growth of the overall article, splitting somewhere is a serious consideration. Sebwite (talk) 01:34, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Strongly disagree. If one wants a sense of what the service is like, one should use the service. No reasonable person consults Wiki to determine if GSV has coverage in a given city or not, especially in light of updates to GSV which have not yet been discovered by wiki editors, or agreed upon over some arbitrary inclusion criteria. The list itself is unencylopedic, per Wikipedia:NOTDIRECTORY. Twredfish (talk) 22:08, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Also, I think there's an undercurrent of possible compromise that a coarse-grained list could be preferable to a fine-grained one. I'd like to have a list to consult to see if Belgium is now on GSV, or that Alabama's coverage now includes most (all?) cities of 50k people or more. But I can see that maintaining a detailed list would be out of scope for an encyclopedia. - PhilipR (talk) 04:18, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

My justifications are at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion#Template:GSVtable. List/Template, either way, violates Wikipedia:NOTDIRECTORY, Wikipedia:OR, and Wikipedia:NPOV. Twredfish (talk)

This should be neither a separate list article, nor a template. It has been deleted by moderated discussion once already. Replace with cited link to http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=68384 Twredfish (talk) 23:48, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

IMO "areas included" is overkill for an encyclopedia article, and it can only become more so as Google gets closer to its goal of including the entire world. The "development" section does a good job of providing a decent overview of what's included, and there's the above Google maps link for anyone who wants something more detailed. Miremare 00:30, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

I do agree that the list should not comprehensively include 100% of all areas covered by SV. Still, this is not something that should be all-or-none. We should try to strike a balance somewhere between giving no idea at all as to what is covered, and having a comprehensive directory, as is done with other aspects of Wikipedia. Sebwite (talk) 01:10, 5 January 2010 (UTC)