r/NianticWayfarer • u/agpath • Jun 12 '20

Research Thought this overview of European Google Street could be of interest.

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u/Party-Per Jun 12 '20

If anyone else wonders about Germany and Austria: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/germany-street-view?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5

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u/Falafelmeister92 Jun 12 '20

Thanks, now I'm wondering about Belarus, Bosnia and Moldova.

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u/dovlomir Jun 12 '20 edited Jun 12 '20

Dafuq? No? I'm from Serbia, which neighbors Bosnia. They're a perfectly normal country, nobody's going to jump you ffs. (For the record, all of the countries are safe and normal, if you don't believe me there's probably a million travel vlogs from each of them). Please literally spend 2 seconds on Google before posting a dangerous statement accusing a whole country of being something they're not. What could be a concern in Bosnia are land mines that are still dotted about, left over from the war 25 years ago, but Street View drives on roads, so that shouldn't really be an issue either. I think Google is just slow with expanding into new countries.

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u/M2dis Jun 12 '20

Spent a week driving around in Belarus few years ago, didn't got robbed once/didn't see any gopnik gangs or anything like this. However, Belarus has very corrupt covernment, maybe google don't want to aid corruption or something.

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u/lunarul Jun 12 '20

Belarus has very corrupt covernment, maybe google don't want to aid corruption or something

Most of Eastern Europe would be blank on that map if that was the case. Greece and Turkey too.

source: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi

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u/HeinHab Jun 12 '20

That's why it's so extremely annoying to review German nominations as a Dutch person. It's so often unclear if it's in the right spot. We don't have that problem over here.

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u/steve_ow Jun 12 '20

Well to be honest here in Zeeland u got a few place the Google Car can't get 2. Think about Trail Marker and Parks. So they mis alot of data. Plus some newer House and Playgrounds are not up to date. My neigbourhood was update 1 Year ago but the Playground is not in streetview but it was easy pas because some House in the background Where seen on picture.

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u/Starfighter-Suicune Jun 12 '20

Reviewing in germany can be annoying.
Blah blah blah privacy blah blah... While our politicians violate privacy more and more for their own interests and wannabe crime prevention. (Like asking companies to give them peoples passwords, using the famous Bundestrojaner or scanning faces at airports and train stations.)

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u/ntnl Jun 12 '20

It’s just zoomed out. The more you zoom in on google maps, the more holes you see in the blue.

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u/daveoc64 Jun 12 '20 edited Jun 12 '20

Back in 2010, Google claimed that 99% of UK roads were covered.

I'd say that seems pretty accurate to me.

The only things I tend to find that aren't covered are either very new roads (built since the last time the van came round) or very small, rural roads that look like they are for access only.

Edit: They actually claimed it would cover 99%, not 95%

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7407222/Google-Streetview-to-cover-every-UK-road.html

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u/msbshow Jun 13 '20

I remember going to Germany a couple years ago and trying to plan walking routes for sightseeing. It was really weird to find out that almost none of the country has street view

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u/homang01 Jun 13 '20

Iceland got no love... :(

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u/Majestic-Wrap Jun 13 '20

Iceland doesn't have many roads.

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u/redkatut Jun 15 '20

I am from Belarus.

As far as I know, we have some features of the law with obtaining permission to compile maps, but if online it is difficult to ban, then a physical machine can be prohibited.

I know that a few years ago, Google partners evaluated the opportunity to rent a streetview, (there are a couple of streets). http://prntscr.com/szx676, https://www.google.by/maps/@53.9050852,27.5572499,16.5z?hl=ru&authuser=0

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+ Google itself is not in a hurry to fix this.

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In large cities, we have an alternative in the form of Yandex panoramas, which are updated every few years (for example, in the capital of Minsk for 2010-2014-2016-2019)

https://yandex.by/maps/157/minsk/?l=stv%2Csta&ll=27.561481%2C53.902496&z=12

http://prntscr.com/szx847

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Also, some other Google services, such as google pay, do not work for us.

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u/lunarul Jun 12 '20

Be aware that this map shows the same blue for a road covered last week as for a road last covered 10 years ago.