Google Street View is by far the most extensive street view service in the world, but there are others who provide more specific coverage to a certain area:
- China: Chinese company City8 introduced Street View for cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Qingdao, Dongguan, Xiamen, Zhuhai, Nanning, Guilin and other Chinese cities in July 2006, a year ahead of Google.[1][2] Also, Soso.com, a search engine owned by Tencent, offers street view for Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Xi'an, Chengdu, Kunming, Wuhan, Lijiang, Dali, Sanya, Wuyuan, Gobi Desert, including Lhasa and other small populated places.[3][4]
- Iraq: A local service called iErbil offers street view for some streets of Arbil.[5]
- Kazakhstan: Russian company Yandex, offers street view for Astana and Almaty.[6]
- South Korea: Daum provides street view coverage for large parts of the country including both urban and rural areas.[7] Also Naver Maps offers street view and plane view for large parts of the country.
- Thailand: MapJack provides street views of the south of the country.[8]
Europe [edit]
- Belarus: Belarusian company Interfax.by offers street view for Minsk and Grodno. Also Russian company Yandex, offers street view for Minsk, Brest, Gomel, Vitebsk, Magileu and Grodno.[9]
- Denmark: The Danish map-tool, Krak, offers their own version of street view in the largest Danish cities, including Copenhagen, Odense and Aarhus.[10] Nokia Maps offers street views of Copenhagen.
- Finland: Nokia Maps offers street views of Helsinki.
- France: French website Urbandive.com offers street views of major cities in France. Bing Maps offers street view for Paris.
- Germany: Bing Maps offered street view for Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Nuremberg, Furth, Erlangen, Stuttgart, Pforzheim, Karlsruhe, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Düsseldorf, Essen and other locations until May 23, 2012.[11]
- Greece: Greek company Kapou has introduced a similar system.[12]
- Hungary: Romanian company NORC provides street view service for Budapest, Debrecen, Győr, Miskolc, Szeged, Hajdúszoboszló, Siofok and the rest of Lake Balaton's shores.
- Italy: www.veniceconnected.com introduced a similar system for Venice including canal view.<http://maps.veniceconnected.it/en/>
- Latvia: Latvian website 1188.lv offers street view for Riga.[13]
- The Netherlands: Bing Maps offers street view for The Hague.
- Norway: Norwegian web page finn.no launched their own Street View service. There are 12 cities and towns available so far. The quality of the imagery seems better than the service offered by Google,[citation needed] and the images are more recently taken.[citation needed] Nokia Maps offers street views of Oslo.
- Poland: Polish website Zumi.pl offers street view for different cities in the country.[14]
- Romania: Romanian company NORC is taking pictures of the Romania and other countries in Eastern and Central Europe.[15] NORC has 360 degree pictures for the biggest Romanian cities, for the Danube Delta (using a boat for capturing photos), for some cities in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Russia and in Austria (Vienna).
- Russia: The first 360 degree panoramas project was started by real estate website gdeetotdom.ru on March 17, 2008. Currently, it has street view panoramas for 62 cities in Russia.[16] Russia's largest search engine Yandex launched street view on September 9, 2009.[17] Street Panoramas at Yandex work for Moscow, and more than 150 other cities in Russia. Yandex has also the street view of the entire motorway Moscow-Saint Petersburg. Also Yandex offers balloon view for Saint Petersburg.[18] Regional portals for ru09.ru have street views for Tomsk,[19] Novosibirsk[20] and Sochi.[21] There are also local websites that offer street view: cityscanner.ru in Yekaterinburg and properm.ru in Perm. In 2011 cityscanner.ru launched a website sah.cityscanner.ru for Sakhalin Oblast with street view panoramas for Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Kholmsk, Korsakov and Aniva.[22]
- Spain: Nokia Maps offers street views of Barcelona.
- Sweden: There are various Swedish street view analogues; the two most popular ones are Gatubild ("Street picture") at Hitta.se with 29 cities, which launched in December 2008, and Gatuvy ("Street view") at Eniro with eight cities and three winter resorts, which launched in December 2009.[citation needed] Nokia Maps offers street views of Stockholm.
- Switzerland: GlobalVision launched VideoStreetView web-platform in December 2009. Accessible through VideoStreetView.com, the projects covers large parts of the country and displays 360° immersive images in full-video motion alongside dynamic maps.[23] The public project is reportedly developing to other major cities and metropolitan areas around the world, Dubai, Saigon and Bangkok, among others.
- Turkey: Russian company Yandex, offers street view for Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir.[24] Also a local service Dunya 360 offers street view for Göynük and some other places[25]
- Ukraine: Russian company Yandex, offers street view for Kiev, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Pripyat (well-known abandoned city near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant) and other locations.
- United Kingdom: seety.co.uk provides coverage for London.[26] Nokia Maps offers street views of London. Bing Maps offers street view for London, Liverpool and Manchester.
North America [edit]
Oceania [edit]
South America [edit]
- Argentina: Two Argentine analogues also exist, one is called Mapplo,[29] which is claimed to be the first street view in Latin America.[30] Fotocalle, another Argentine project, is claimed to be the first street view service in the world to provide HD pictures.[31]
- Chile: Chilean company Publiguías released a service similar to Google's Street View in December 2010 called "Street Diving". It currently offers views of Providencia and Santiago communes, with plans to expand it to other communes in the future.[32] XYGO launched a street view service in April 2011 marginally covering seven cities.[33] It now covers over 50 cities and claims to have coverage for 240 communes of Chile, which they will be releasing periodically.[34]
- Colombia: Colombian site Topmedellin.com offers street view for some streets in Medellin and Cartagena.[35]
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