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I'm wondering if you think in the future Google Street View will be available on every street in the world? They've come a long way but they still have a long way to go....
Africa except for rich urban nodes won't happen, the slum like areas don't have roads that would support the google car, and streets wich are mostly used for walking and using motorcycles will be missed.
Many locations in Uganda are now covered so I don't think most of the stable sub saharan African countries will be a problem to cover in the future.
Google Maps Street View is the best and most dangerous tool that has ever been invented. Yes, I can see places all around the world. But at the same time, we have enemy nations that will know EXACTLY where they could possibly invade and pinpoint as a target for terrorism. When I first saw street view, I was immediately horrified. I just know that in WWWIII, it will be used as a major component and it may destroy us.
Google Maps Street View is the best and most dangerous tool that has ever been invented. Yes, I can see places all around the world. But at the same time, we have enemy nations that will know EXACTLY where they could possibly invade and pinpoint as a target for terrorism. When I first saw street view, I was immediately horrified. I just know that in WWWIII, it will be used as a major component and it may destroy us.
Street View won't discriminate though and things can change on it over time so may not always be accurate. Russia and China are heavily covered on Street View as well, so in theory we could also use it to our advantage if a war ever broke out with them.
Google Maps Street View is the best and most dangerous tool that has ever been invented. Yes, I can see places all around the world. But at the same time, we have enemy nations that will know EXACTLY where they could possibly invade and pinpoint as a target for terrorism. When I first saw street view, I was immediately horrified. I just know that in WWWIII, it will be used as a major component and it may destroy us.
Pretty much everything has already been seen by satellite. Street view is a toy compared to that.
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Privacy issues is a nonsense argument. Google street view isn't a continuous video of the street. It is a one time picture. No different than a home or business being photographed and put on the internet or on an advertisement.
Not even pavement/blacktop will become available on every street/road in the world. At the present, there are just a few gravel roads in the USA that are on Street View, but not many. There are a few streetviews in the Dakotas where you can rotate and see the view behind Google-car, and all you can see is a cloud of dust.
I would estimate that less than 10% of rural road mileage in the USA is now on streetview. Maybe 5% in agricultural midwestern states with section line road grids. In the USA, it might even be a lot less than half of the paved roads covered by streetview so far.
On a global basis, I would be surprised if 1% of the existing roads are now on streetview, so there is a long way to go.
Not even pavement/blacktop will become available on every street/road in the world. At the present, there are just a few gravel roads in the USA that are on Street View, but not many. There are a few streetviews in the Dakotas where you can rotate and see the view behind Google-car, and all you can see is a cloud of dust.
I would estimate that less than 10% of rural road mileage in the USA is now on streetview. Maybe 5% in agricultural midwestern states with section line road grids. In the USA, it might even be a lot less than half of the paved roads covered by streetview so far.
On a global basis, I would be surprised if 1% of the existing roads are now on streetview, so there is a long way to go.
Yes there is a very long way to go to cover everything. By eventually, I was thinking by later this century and beyond and certainly not within the next few years.
Yes there is a very long way to go to cover everything. By eventually, I was thinking by later this century and beyond and certainly not within the next few years.
I think before that happens, the technology will of present day mappng will become obsolete.
Comparable to, say, a prediction that one day telephones would reach every home in the world. But the telephone failed to survive anywhere near that long, and a whole new technology has now reached nearly every home, making the telephone obsolete.
Long before StreetView becomes universal, there may be real-time satellite imagery of the entire world.
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