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Here is new link for Google Street View Ban in India https://www.techawaz.com/breaking-news/google-street-view-india-ban Please check it..ohm.aadhi 19:23, 10 January 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nishantpatar (talk • contribs)

Clickwalk

Could we add a mention of www.clickwalk.no ? This is a similar project that predates GSV by 9 years and offered basically the same service. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.114.37.107 (talk) 20:40, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The first GPS based street view imaging service was demonstrated in 1999 in Ireland. A fully functional interactive web app with 360-degree image rotation was available in 2002. The service was known as Position Images and was recorded by The waybackmachine.com in 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20021003073930/http://www.positionimages.com/dc/tk8/dublinC4setroute.html Speechviewer (talk) 23:10, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Saucy^{[talk – contribs]} 03:16, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Google Street View & Waymo

Does anyone know if Google Street View data (not only the images/video captured, but also the driving actually performed by the human driver) was used to train Google's self-driving cars (Waymo)? There's nothing mentioned in this article about it, but it seems quite likely that it was. (Otherwise, that seems like a tremendous waste of data.) If so, a mention should be added to this article. Bueller 007 (talk) 16:13, 16 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

X's on ground

Mention that one can apparently tell where each picture was taken, as "X"s will appear on the ground as one moves the mouse. Jidanni (talk) 19:10, 23 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

citespam

Editing is locked, but this is citespam and should be reverted: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Google_Street_View&type=revision&diff=1045533978&oldid=1038084626 2.244.91.237 (talk) 04:56, 17 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reference 19 link is broken

the reference 19 is labeled " Romano, Andrea (March 7, 2018). "Google Japan Now Has Street View From a Dog's Perspective". Travel + Leisure." however the hyperlink takes the user to, https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/national-parks/japan-national-parks-remote-work-hotels-campsites Furios.1 (talk) 05:46, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. InfiniteNexus (talk) 05:55, 4 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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hi, can I please edit the part of the page that says "privacy concerns" cause it says google street view is back in Germany now, capturing street view images, which they started doing a week ago on June 22, here's some sources https://9to5google.com/2023/06/09/google-street-view-germany/ https://www.androidpolice.com/google-street-view-germany-after-10-years-privacy-outcry/ Knightcatlover (talk) 03:02, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 03:28, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Data capturing equipment

This section is a mess. There needs to be an explanation of "R2," "R5," and "R7." What does this code mean? And they need dates. Of particular interest is what was the timeframe of Google discontinued its use of the poor-quality Elphel cameras which had the image quality of the worst of early cellphone cameras. This is easily shown by using the "See more dates" function.

Also, the 11-MP sensor was Kodak's interline transfer imaging chip which proved capable in other cameras such as Redlake.

Thanks. WP13 Yankeepapa13 (talk) 00:43, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

kazakhstan coverage

as of 22nd of march 2024 kazakhstan got official google street view coverage Madcatto (talk) 18:14, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

also, panama has had street view coverage since 29th of september 2023 and panama still seems to be not filled on the map Madcatto (talk) 18:17, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

germany also still seems to be marked as partial coverage while that hasnt been true for 7 months now, the country is fully captured Madcatto (talk) 18:22, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Photospheres are mentioned in the article, but with no link to the relevant VR Photography Wikipedia page. Camilopiro (talk) 05:57, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: Not clear what you want to do and what article to link. TheNuggeteer (talk) 06:21, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]