Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View

guest · Dec 13, 2019

Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View
Google Earth now covers 98% of the population
December 13, 2019
https://www.cnet.com/news/google-maps-has-now-photographed-10-million-miles-in-street-view/

On Friday, Google revealed how much work those cars and other devices have done to map the world: the company has captured more than 10 million miles of Street View imagery. The distance, Google said, would amount to circling the Earth more than 400 times.
The company also said Google Earth, the search giant's aerial mapping service, has a total of 36 million square miles of satellite imagery for people to browse. With that collection, Google has mapped out the parts of the world where 98% of people live.

"Imagery is at the core of everything we do," Ethan Russell, a director of product at Google Maps, said in an email. "We think of it as the foundation of the entire mapmaking process."

Russell stressed that Google's mapping imagery is from public places you'd see while standing in the street or flying overhead. He said the company gets all of its satellite photographs from third-party providers.
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In the last few years, Google has tried to build out Maps a hub of information, rather than simply a navigation tool.
But at its core, Google Maps has always been about places and how to get to and from them. That includes the exterior of a particular building or knowing the topography of a certain region.
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