All the stories tagged with: google street view
Google stops Street View in Bangalore
06/21/2011, Google has ordered a stop work order for the collection of images for its Street View service Bangalore, a southern Indian city, after receiving objections from police. According to the police in that part of the world, they had security [...]
Google Street View project to being in India
05/26/2011, Google’s Street View project has arrived in the world’s second most populous country, India. Starting from Thursday onwards, it intends to collect panoramic images of the vast country, all the way from luxurious palaces, mausoleums (Taj Mahal, anyone?), and its [...]
Pro-Google Vigilantes Egg Homes Of Folks Who Opt-out Of Street View
11/23/2010, Google Street View is a controversial service to many folks, especially since there was a rather painful incident of data gathering recently. Then again, there are some folks who really like the service and have actually gone to great lengths [...]
FTC Drops Google Street View Inquiry
10/28/2010, Google has been in some hot water after it collected some sensitive data while working on its Street View service. There is some good news for the search giant, though, as the Federal Trade Commission has dropped the investigation into [...]
Google Required To Publish Italian Street View Car Routes Three Days In Advance
10/25/2010, Google’s Street View service that allows you to view maps at street level is incredibly useful and not to mention controversial. If you’ve previously read about the pranksters (pictured above) who like to tail the Google Street View cars, it’s [...]
Nokia Developing 3D Rival To Google Street View
09/16/2010, Nokia and its mapping division Navteq are busy developing a rival to Google’s Street View, a service that will apparently offer full 3D computer models of villages, towns and cities. According to them, while Google’s Street View provides panoramic views [...]
Software erases pedestrians from Google Street View
08/11/2010, Google Street View is now under scrutiny in Germany, as it doesn’t really go down well with privacy advocates. After all, does the average person on the street have a reasonable limit of expectation to not end up on the [...]
Google Sued Over Google Street View Data Sniffing
05/19/2010, Last week, Google has admitted that Google Street View cars have been sniffing data from WIFI networks (official announcement). The goal was probably to get a map of MAC addresses (device IDs) in relation to their geo-location. However, it looks [...]
Google Street View Team Accidentally Catches Wi-Fi Data
05/15/2010, While many people love the free services that Google offers to the public, there are many folks out there who are concerned about the amount of personal data that Google manages to accumulate. A recent incident has surfaced; possibly highlighting [...]
Google Street View snowmobile
02/09/2010, Google will be bringing you the Street View feature all the way from Whistler Mountain, which comprises of “a range of rugged mountains, trails of snow, fir trees and placid lakes below.” Doesn’t it just boggle the mind as to [...]
