Google Street View is the technology featured on Google Maps and Google Earth that provides panoramic views of multiple positions on many streets of the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include cities and rural areas around the world. Streets with Street View imagery available are displayed as blue lines in Google Maps.
Google Street View displays streaked image panoramas. Most of the photography is done by car, but some are done by trekkers, tricycles, walks, boats, snowmobiles, and underwater equipment.
Video Google Street View
History and features
Street View began in 2001 with The Stanford CityBlock Project, a Google-sponsored project at Stanford University. The project ended in June 2006, and the technology was folded into StreetView.
- 2007: Launched May 25 in the United States using Immersive Media technology.
- 2008: In May, Google announced that they were testing highly obscure technology on busy Manhattan street pictures. This technology uses computer algorithms to search Google image databases for faces and obscure them. Street View is integrated into Google Earth 4.3, the Maps app on the Apple iPhone, and the Maps app for S60 3rd Edition. In November, the Pegman drag and drop icon was introduced as a primary user interface element to connect from 2D Map view to Street View 3D view. When Pegman is dropped to a set of specific coordinates on Google Maps whose Street View data is available, Street View opens and takes over the entire map window.
- 2009: Full screen option recognition. Intelligent Navigation introduces allowing users to navigate around the panorama by double-clicking with their cursor in any place or object they want to see.
- 2010: Available indoor business view. Google invites users to contribute panoramas using their own gadgets with Android 4.2. Google highlights a user's contribution panorama with blue circle icons on Maps. The company also creates a website to highlight places in the world where people can find it.
- 2013: The business interior display is shown as a small orange circle. Businesses like shops, cafes, and other places can pay for photographers to take a panoramic view of the interior of their place which is then included in Street View. Google is preparing a program to allow third parties to borrow Street View Trekker (camera mounted in backpack) and donate imagery to Google Maps.
- 2014: Road-level imagery from the past can now be seen, if available for a specific street view.
- 2015: Partnerships announced between Street View and environmental monitoring company Aclima. Cars began carrying sensors to detect pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and particulate matter. In October, support for Google Cardboard was announced which allowed users to explore street views in 360-degree virtual reality.
- 2017: Images inside the International Space Station are added to Street View.
- 2017: Beginning in August, Google allows users to create their own path-like blue path, for connected photosfalls close enough to each other.
- 2017: On September 5, Google announced that it is improving the quality of its panoramic photo view of mapping vehicle improvements with high-resolution camera systems and new AIs to capture better images. The new Google car has been seen in various American cities since March 2017 as well as in Japan since August. The first images taken with the new generation camera are available online on September 13th.
- 2017: Since October, Google has allowed users to take Street View images using Insta360 Pro. Therefore, a few years from now, Google Street View can be available in all countries of the world.
- 2018: Google Japan now offers a street view from a dog perspective.
Maps Google Street View
Implementation
Street View is available as a component of Google Maps, as a web app, and as a mobile app for Android and iOS. Initially, Google Maps uses Adobe Flash for Street View. Google overhauled Google Maps in 2013. The newer versions use JavaScript extensively and provide a JavaScript application programming interface. At the time of release, the new Google Maps and Street View were measured slower than the old version in various settings. Users can switch to an older version of Google Maps, which is especially useful when Google Maps is slower than usual.
Data retrieval equipment
- Camera: Street View imagery comes from several generations of camera systems from Immersive Media [1], Point Gray Research (now FLIR Systems) [2] and developed in-house. The camera does not contain any mechanical components, including shutter, instead of using CMOS sensors and electronic rolling shutter. The widely used versions are:
- R2: Immediately after Immersive Media, photographs were taken with a ring of eight 11-megapixel CCD sensors with wide-angle commercial photography lenses, cameras of the same specifications used for the Google Books project./li>
- Ladybug2 Camera (1024 x 768 pixels resolution) by Point Gray Research.
- R5: uses an 8 megapixel CMOS camera 5-inch rings by Elphel with a special low-flare lens, plus a camera with a fisheye lens at the top to capture top-level buildings.
- R7: is the first built-in internal camera, using the same 15 sensors and lenses as R5, but no fish eyes.
- 2017: using 8 20MP cameras. Includes two facing left and right to read road signs and business names.
- Positioning: the recorded image must be associated with accurate positioning. This is done through the Global Positioning System, wheel speed sensor, and inertial navigation sensor data.
- Laser range scanners from Sick AG for measurements of up to 50 meters 180Ã, Â ° on the front of the vehicle. This is used to record the actual dimensions of the space being photographed.
- The LIDAR scanner from Velodyne is added in update 2017. Installed at 45 Â ° to capture 3D depth information, and used for additional position information.
- Vehicles: data recording devices are usually installed on the roof of the car. Trike (tricycle) was developed to record pedestrian routes including Stonehenge, and other UNESCO World Heritage sites. In 2010 the snowmobile-based system captured the 2010 Winter Olympics site. Trolleys have been used to shoot inside museums, and in Venice narrow streets are photographed with cameras mounted in backpacks, and canals photographed from boats.
- The portable Google Trekker package is used in outdoor terrain. For example, the six main lines of Snowdon are mapped by Google Trekker by 2015.
Pegman
As mentioned above, the Pegman drag-and-drop icon is the primary user interface element used by Google to connect Maps to Street View. Its name comes from its resemblance to the tongs. When not in use, Pegman sits atop the Google Maps zoom control. Pegman sometimes "dress up" for a special occasion or join a friend's golf on Google Maps. When dragged into Street View near Area 51, he becomes a flying saucer. While viewing the older view, Pegman in the minimap turns into Doc Brown from Back to the Future .
Pegman sometimes appears as a costume character on Google shows, such as the launch of Street View in France in 2008.
Privacy issues
Google Street View will obscure homes for every requesting user, in addition to blurring faces and license plates automatically. Privacy advocates object to Google Street View, which leads to views found to show men leaving bare clubs, protesters at abortion clinics, basking in bikinis, and people engaged in activities seen from public properties where they do not want to be seen publicly. Another concern is the height of the camera, and at least in two countries, Japan and Switzerland, Google has to lower the camera height so as not to pass through fences and fences. This service also allows users to mark inappropriate or sensitive imagery for Google to be reviewed and deleted. The Scottish police received an apology for wasting police time in 2014 from a local business owner in Edinburgh who in 2012 had committed a fake killing for Google's camera car by lying on the street "while his partner stood on it with a handle". As of May 2010, it was revealed that Google has collected and stored load data from unencrypted Wi-Fi connections as part of Street View.
Such concern has caused Google not to provide or suspend services in countries around the world. Austria: Google Street View is banned in Austria because Google is known to collect unauthorized Wifi data in 2010. After the ban was lifted, rules were made for Street View ways to operate legally in Austria. Google has not yet continued service. Officially welcomed the new guidelines but has ruled out operating under them. Until 2016, Google Street View is still not available.
Third-party image usage
Art photographers have chosen the images to use in their own work. Although images may be pixelated, muddy colors, and curved perspectives, photographs have been published in book form and exhibited in art galleries, such as the work of Jon Rafman at Saatchi Gallery, London. In his personal appreciation of Street View material, Rafman looks at the images that evoke "the harsh urban life" portrayed in American street photography and the images commissioned by the Agricultural Security Administration. He also uses the "defining moments" of Henri Cartier-Bresson "as if I were a photojournalist who responds instantly to events that appear".
Michael Wolf won the honorable statement in Everyday Life at World Press Photo 2011 competition for some of his work using Google Street View.
Mishka Henner was elected for the 2013 Deutsche BÃÆ'¶rse Photography Prize in November 2012 for the 'No Man's Land' series, which depicts sex workers at rural roadside locations.
Swedish programmer Anton WallÃÆ'Â n developed a game called GeoGuessr, which put players into Google Street View and made them guess the location.
Canadian artist, Sylvia Grace Borda, works with John M Lynch between 2013-14 to include the first table staged into the Google Street View engine. Their efforts won them the Lumen Prize in 2016. Borda continues autonomously for writers on Google Street View machines and in 2017 made the Tablo series, Project Kissing Kissing Project.
Coverage
In June 2012, Google announced that it has taken 20 petabytes of data for Street View, which consists of photos taken along 5 million miles of road, covering 39 countries and about 3,000 cities. Coverage covers most of North and South America, from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut to Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands. The map also includes panoramas taken underwater such as at Nusa Tenggara Nusa Tenggara, at the Grand Canyon, inside the museum, and Liwa Desert in the United Arab Emirates seen from camelback. In the course of ten days with Apa Sherpa, Google documents Khumbu, Nepal with the communities of Mount Everest, Sherpas, monasteries, and schools.
Google also added landmarks in Egypt, including the Pyramids of Giza, Cairo Citadel, Saqqara, Monastery of Saint Mina, and Qaitbay Castle in the September 9, 2014 release.
Many places still have limited or no coverage, including:
- Caribbean except for Puerto Rico, limited coverage in the US Virgin Islands and Martinique
- Central America except Guatemala and Mexico
- French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Suriname, and Venezuela in South America
- Africa except Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Nigeria, union RÃÆ' Â ©, Senegal, South Africa, Swaziland, Tunisia, Uganda, and some city sights in Madagascar
- Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, and most of Germany in Europe
- Asia except Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, most parts of Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia and Russia
- Middle East except Israel, Jordan, Turkey and United Arab Emirates
- South Pacific, with the exception of American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pitcairn Islands (Pitcairn and Henderson Island)
Gallery
See also
- List of street view services
- Aspen Movie Map (the oldest project of this type)
- Route check issues (algorithmic issues related to planning Street View car routes)
- Historypin: archive of photos, video, audio recording, and personal recall made by the user.
- VR Photography
References
External links
- Official website
- Google Street View coverage map
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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