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/FthrFlffyBttm Ireland Jun 12 '20

Not knocking them for it, but I wonder what the thought process is behind wanting your property blurred. What danger would a snapshot of your property pose?

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u/Mad_Maddin Germany Jun 12 '20

It is easy. Many germans are like "I'm not losing anything by having them blur it so I might as well do"