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In the US, Google street view is highly erratic in their coverage. I just checked out two towns I lived in in the 90s, both with populations of about 5,000. The one in Florida (Madison) has complete coverage, every single street including the ones that are dead end. The one in Missouri (Salem) has coverage of only the two main streets, and just a few locations on those streets.
I wonder how they determine their priorities. In general, Missouri has complete coverage of all numbered highways, but nothing at all in towns except those highways as they pass through the town.
The GSV images of many parts of Massachusetts do it no justice at all. They were taken on a very hot, sunny day in which the sun's glare distorts many of the images or makes Massachusetts look dull and uninteresting, rather than the colourful place that it is, especially during summer.
The GSV images of many parts of Massachusetts do it no justice at all. They were taken on a very hot, sunny day in which the sun's glare distorts many of the images or makes Massachusetts look dull and uninteresting, rather than the colourful place that it is, especially during summer.
Still better than with many places in the Midwest, where the images were taken when the weather was gloomy.
The same location (not Salem, though, no idea why that is in the link title, maybe because I had looked for Salem originally because of the other post):
Except for Germany, Austria, and Portugal all of Western and Central Europe seems to be in GSV. In those three countries only a few big cities are available, and even there many people have demanded Google blur their buildings. And Google had to comply because of the privacy laws there.
I saw a Street View truck rolling through the neighborhood last summer, but my neighborhood in Pittsburgh was last updated on Street View in 2008. It's interesting to see what shops have come and gone, what stuff was demolished to make room for new development . . . and what roads are STILL under construction.
I'm interested in Korea, and the best service for checking out the streets is through Daum.
You have to search in Korean, though, but it goes without saying local language service will be better than what you'd have in English. I don't use it so much to check out places I haven't seen . . . I use it to stroll down memory lane, and to see how much things have changed. One nice feature is you can change between dates, so you can take a look at the same view in 2006, and 2008, and 2011, or whenever else the Daum truck came through town.
To the whoever it was who gave me a rep comment saying I should have a look at Houston River Oaks and West University:
I have two major problems with Houston. As you said yourself, it is a very extended city, I dislike that, I am used to compact, walkable cities. In addition to that Houston is boring to me as it is not build on hills or in a river valley. I used to live in a flat city and I won't make that mistake again.
I just checked out River Oaks on GSV. It looks like a very rich suburb, with lots of mansions. I despise that, I am an utter middle-class person: houston river oaks - Google Maps
I wonder how they determine their priorities. In general, Missouri has complete coverage of all numbered highways, but nothing at all in towns except those highways as they pass through the town.
Maybe their priorities are the same everywhere, but all of their employees don't have the same work ethic?
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I guess I would die inside in a place like that.
