GOOGLE STREET

Contents
Introduction About Google Services provided by Google Street view of various streets Developments GSV vehicles Cameras Camera quality comparison Privacy Issues & bans Advantages Disadvantages Coverage Competative Products Future Enhancements Conclusion Reference

Introduction
Google street is a technology featured in google maps & google earth that provides panoramic views from various positions along many streets in the world.It was launched on may 25 2007 . google street displays images taken from a fleet of specially adapted cars,areas not accessible by cars are sometimes covered by means of cycles and pedestrians methods.

Google
Developed in Mento Park,California in Sep 4 1998. Founders:- LARRY PAGE & SERGEY BRIN. Is an American multi national corporation. Mainly used for internet searching,cloud computing,advertizing technologies. In 2006,Paul Buchheit moved company head quarters to Parkway,Mountain view,California. About 24 pentabytes of search request data are processed daily

Services provided
Chain of products have been introduced by google that has led to its rapid development Gmail - for Email service Orkut,Google buzz social networking community You tube For sharing & viewing videos over internet

Applications provided by Google

Google Chrome For web browsing Google Talk For instant Messaging Picassa For Organising,Editing &

Sharing digital photos

GOOGLE STREET VIEWING

ITS THE TECHNOLOGY THAT PROVIDES THE PANORAMIC VIEW
FROM VARIOUS POSITIONS ALONG MANY STREETS.

LAUNCHED ON MAY 25 2007 IN THE CITIES OF USA. DISPLAYS IMAGES BY SPECIALLY ADAPTED CARS. AREAS NOT ACCESSIBLE BY CARS LIKE PEDESTRIAN AREAS,NARROW
STREETS,ALLEYS ARE COVERED BY GOOGLE TRIKES AND SNOWMOBILE.

ON EACH VEHICLE THERE ARE 9 DIRECTIONAL CAMERAS FOR 360^

VIEW AT A HEIGHT OF 2.5 METRES.

USING KEYBOARD & MOUSE THE HORIZONTAL & VERTICAL

VIEWING DIRECTION & ZOOM LEVEL CAN BE ADJUSTED.

AVAILIABLE WEBSITE

www.googlestreetview.com.

STREET VIEWS OF VARIOUS CITIES

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Developments
Development of google street is as follows:
On may 25 2007, first introduced in USA. On May 12 2008,went a testing run in Manhattan. On July 2 2008,introduced in France And Italy. On August 4 2008,introduced in Australia And Japan. On December 1 2008,introduced in New Zealand. On July 10 2008,2 new features were added-Effective mask of google car& application of face blurring technology. On April 9 2009,Google street View had been availiable in full screen. On June 17 2010,added blue dots to its maps that displays user submitted images.

Specially designed Cars are mainly used.

.. Mainly works with solar energy and motors are used to move vehicle. Sensors have been installed for moving in traffic . Uses GPS &Wifi system to trace the desired paths. Areas that can t be covered in car is done by tricycles and pedestrian views. Cars are specially programmed with the help of the sensors to give way for emergency vehicles

Main feature of the car is that it has no driver,no engine,no gear

Google vehicles
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Cameras

Cameras for street view

Mainly 9 directional cameras were used for taking

pictures. Cameras used for street view are developed by the ELPHEL companies.. 3 types of cameras were used. First generation cameras were used in the streets of USA. Second generation cameras were used in Australia. Nowadays generation 3 cameras are used for taking the HD images. In google trikes and snowmobile third generation cameras were used.

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See the difference

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Bans

Privacy Issues & Bans

Privacy advocates have been objected to this feature of

google.
Google adopted face blurring technology for this First ban of Google street view was in Austria due to the

privacy issues.
But in Austria Romanian company NORC features this facility Intially Google street was Banned in Czech Republic but later

it has been removed.

Privacy issue occurs mainly to those people who are doing

secret jobs,people who are sun bathing are often has many disturbance due to GSV.
Due to this reasons GSV is banned in most cities

Advantages

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Advantages of GSV
GSV helps one to know about the cities of the entire world

while sitting in his drawing room

The street view technology can be very helpful if its is

included in the educational sectors

This technology is very helpful for the tourists who are

planning to go to any places.they will get an idea about the geography of that areas
Coming to the GSV vehicles they doesn t requires fuel since it

mainly uses solar energy

No pollution

Disadvantages
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Disadvantages of GSV
Main disadvantage of the GSV is its privacy issue. Street viewing is not availiable during the situations when

the google cars are in trafiic.means there will be a lagging during that time
GSV is unavailiable in waterbodies Not availiable during night time No description about the cities .we can just see the cities

only.

Coverage

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Coverage
In North American Continents USA - from 25 May, 2007 onwards. Canada- from 7 Oct, 2009 In Latin American Countries Mexico-From 9 Nov,2009 Brazil- From 30 Sep,2010 European Countries Almost 16 countries of Europe-From 2 Jul,2008. Asian Countries Japan-From 4 Aug,2008 onwards Singapore-From 2 Dec,2009 onwards India,in Bengluru& New Delhi-From 26 May,2011 Oceania Australia-from 4 Aug,2008. New Zealand-From 1 Dec,2008 African Nations South Africa-From 1 Sep,2009 onwards Antartica Antartica-From 1 Sep,2010 onwards

Street view coverage:-a close look

Competative Products
Asia
China- city8 in the cities of Beijing from july 2006. Japan - location view in the cities of Tokyo from May 2007 Kazakhisthan - Russian company Yadex

Europe
Germany - sightwalk in the cities of Berlin,Munich,Stuttgart. UK-seety.co.uk in the cities of London France-Urbandive.com in the cities of Paris,Bordeaux(Tour de France) Denmark- Danismaptool,krak is there in Copenhagen Switzerland- Global vision

North America
Canada- Bingmaps in Dec 2009 in the cities of Vancuver,whistler USA - streetside,everyscape,mapjack,mapquest

Oceania
New zealand- Everyscape

Future Enhancements
Can be effectively used in education field Either text descripition or voice description during the street view will help

better use of GSV

Adopt better methods for getting access through the water bodies

Conclusion
Google street View is thus becoming one of the important as well as a useful applications put forward by the Google corporation.by this feature one is capable of having a thorough knowledge about the cities of all over the world.

References
www.google.com www.wikipedia.com www.googlestreetview.com www.thenextweb.com www.maps.google.com

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