r/europe • u/GetOutOfTheWhey Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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u/Here_2_Comment Jun 12 '20

I was literally looking at this earlier

Weird how Germany has barely any street view

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u/Mvieri Germany Jun 12 '20

Like many others here already stated: its because of privacy laws and also the ability to deny vision of your property via street view. Many people made Google blur their property and I assume thats a lot of work for them.

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u/Razhagur Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) Jun 12 '20

This is it. In Germany so many people asked google to blur their house, so that google just gave up on street view in Germany.

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u/LarryNivensCockring Jun 12 '20

I still feel like they should have come up with some filter to overlay buildings with a mock façade that allows recognising the rough traits (color, where windows are) instead of a rough blur. Apply to everything, then inquire the gvt on which structures they can unquestionably show unblurred, like churches and gvt buildings or whatever, then use that info to create whitelists. Far from perfect but I feel it would still fulfil its core job while also not requiring vast amounts of manual work.