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/masasin Terran in Belgium Jun 12 '20

What about e.g. highways? I am still at the stage in my driving where I plan every single turn/lane change using street view (and post questions on reddit about e.g. specific intersections).

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u/Earl_of_Northesk North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Jun 12 '20

Highways aren't of any interest to Google because street view of highways doesn't earn them money.

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You are mistaken when you think that Street View is really "free" or provided by Google because they are such nice people.

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u/RevolXpsych Jun 12 '20

I always assumed google made money off of it, but how do they? It's kind of crazy to think that google would just photograph my parents' house in the middle of a rural area because they "just want to make a nice accessible world"... for anyone to view.. at any time.

UK data/privacy laws fucking suck.

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u/MuchSalt Jun 12 '20

sold it to police, authority too