Google Loans Cameras To Volunteers To Fill Gaps in 'Street View'

guest · Sep 23, 2019

Google Loans Cameras To Volunteers To Fill Gaps in 'Street View'
He's Trying To Fill In The Gaps On Google Street View — Starting With Zimbabwe
September 22, 2019
https://knpr.org/npr/2019-09/hes-trying-fill-gaps-google-street-view-starting-zimbabwe

One of the first things people do when they use Google Street View is check out the place where they live.
As services like Google Maps have increasingly become our primary map of the world, being left out of features like Street View can have consequences. Street View helps people with everyday tasks like checking out a new commute route, choosing a restaurant or deciding where to go on vacation.

Most images on Street View are collected by drivers, and most of these drivers are employed by third parties that work with Google. But when it comes to the places Google hasn't prioritized, people like Kanhema can fill in the gaps.
In 2018, Kanhema applied to borrow a 360-degree camera through Google's Street View camera loan program, and in the fall, he took a two-week trek through Zimbabwe with the equipment.

Marquardt says Google currently has no plans to compensate its volunteers, adding that it pays contributors "in a lot of other ways" by offering "a platform to host gigabytes and terabytes of imagery and publish it to the entire world, absolutely for free."
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