Talk:Google Street View/Archive 1

Evolution
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 * On March 27, 2008,more cities were introduced: Seattle,Rome,Tokyo,London,Cork,Paris,Montréal,Toronto,Quebec,Vancouver,Winnipeg,Milan,Moscow

Not true as far as I know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.212.122.247 (talk) 22:58, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

This is totally inaccurate, so I removed it.Sebwite (talk) 02:25, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Newark
I have reinstated Newark on the list of updates regarding the development section of the article for June 10th. The removal of Newark from the list is unwarranted as it is seperate from New York state being the largest city in New Jersey state. The facility to use Google Street View did not exist for Newark prior to June 10. The particular section is referenced and footnoted from "Google LatLong Blog" which lists Newark, New Jersey as a new city addition.

It is also not advertising as the link is to the Wikipedia article regarding Newark, New Jersey. It is completely neutral as Newark is the largest city in the state of New Jersey. Fresno, Bakersfield and Sacramento are also listed and lie within the same state therefore the removal of Newark is unwarranted. --Enya2008 (talk) 22:16, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I see Bakersfield has been removed due to not having a camera icon. In that case nevermind about Newark, Thanks. --Enya2008 (talk) 01:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Anyway, listing additional cities in this section is not a violation of Wikipedia's advertising policy. It is not a violation of any policy for that matter. The issue is that in this section, the concensus has been that only those locations that Google has marked with a camera icon would be listed here. Sebwite (talk) 01:36, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Merger Proposal
If Development of Google Street View survives AfD, this discussion is to determine whether or not relevant portions (or the whole) of the page may be merged into Google Street View. As this discussion will determine, that merger can be anywhere from a redirect (no substantive information transferred) to a complete cut and paste. Thanks. Protonk (talk) 23:22, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Google Street View already has a table in the Development section; we don't need more. -- F lag F reak TALK 20:23, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, what if the other article survives afd? I'm suggesting merge any content that is helpful and get rid of an unneeded fork.  I don't think merging means we are required to merge any actual content.  I'm not proposing that we insert the entirety of the Development of Google Street View into this page. If everything is redundant then we are !voting on a redirect, basically. Protonk (talk) 03:35, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * From the looks of it, it won't survive AfD. If it does, then that's fine, too. The author of that page has put together a long detailed list (quite well,actually) of Street View's development, but it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia, and the development of Street View is so non-notable that it should only be in one sentence, and it can be. -- F lag F reak TALK 12:42, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Disagree that it can be said in one sentence. Besides different cities being introduced on different days in eight sets of introductions so far, the coverage levels of various areas have been expanded from what they originally were at various times to an increased level. This has been followed by the media and drawn a lot of attention. Sebwite (talk) 20:00, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Okay, probably a few sentences. How about this:

The development of the service started in May 2007, adding major cities and national parks in the United States first, then moving on to the Tour de France route.
 * No wasn't that easy? Eventually, there's going to be so much media coverage on so many updates, that this development section would become HUMONGOUS according to your method. In can be done in a few statements easily, like above. -- F lag F reak TALK 20:55, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Image:Google Street View car.jpg
Regarding this edit, is the edit summary correct? I examined the Google Street View image that the image links to and the image looks OK to me, right down to shadows and parked cars. Not being from the USA, I can't be sure though. --AussieLegend (talk) 23:14, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Today
Street view added alot of us cities, maybe we should add that to the article.--Accdude92 (talk) 15:49, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * These were added on December 9. I took care of adding the major cities from these additions to Template:GSVtable already. Sebwite (talk) 19:07, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

Google Street View Driver...
Hi, How can I apply for Google Street View Driver of the car? I'd happy to do it for as long as it takes to finish the job...

Thank you Bohdan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.74.75.115 (talk) 11:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

'''Answer: You can't apply directly! google normally post anonymous ads in local papers and/or online websites asking for professional drivers with extensive knowledge of the area... If you are invited to the interview only then you will find out who you might work for!!! There's no way interested parties can find out if the ad is for Google or not!!!''' 79.219.115.63 (talk) 10:39, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

More update
Hi, when will the next update occur? Will there have more US coverage or other coverage included.13:16, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

I want to volunteer in this project
Lets say, I want to have every single corner of Odessa, Ukraine where I am originally from to be goodle streeted. I live in USA, yet I can come there, find someone with a good car, and take a ride. Or I have lots of frinds there who can do it .... so what is the next step? GK tramrunner (talk) 12:55, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

If you're thinking of volunteering for a project, I'd try Openstreetmap. C2r (talk) 13:24, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

updates.
What areas of New Brunswick, NJ are updated?, I just checked there and nothing new as opposed to the major highways are updated in blue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.70.72 (talk) 17:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Updates
It seem like street view updates every 3 months, I find that ridiculous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.70.72 (talk) 02:13, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

'''Why? And the unofficial update interval is 6-12 months, 6 for major metro areas, 12 months for smaller communities that made it onto the "list"....''' 79.219.115.63 (talk) 10:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Driving
What does Google Street view do? Do they drive the cars all arouhnd the world? And why does it take upto 90 days to update

24.228.70.72 (talk) 03:28, 25 November 2009 (UTC)nextbarker
 * Talk pages are for discussing improvements to an article. Questions like this would be better directed to WikiAnswers or Google itself. 68.146.81.123 (talk) 15:01, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

NJ updated
Where in NJ is updated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.228.70.72 (talk) 04:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

Argleton
I removed the reference to Argleton from the Glitches section. This has nothing to do with Street View. It's an oddity involving Google Maps, but it has no business being in this article. 68.146.81.123 (talk) 16:10, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

No street view in High Point
There is no street view in Hign Point, NC but have coverage in the surrounding. I feel surprised. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheuk18me94 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Google Street View Stories
I removed the "Google Street View Stories" section only to have it reverted. Does anybody really think this section brings anything relevant to the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.96.184 (talk) 06:08, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

More street view in city/town/village please
Lots of Rural area of USA is added. But not many town's street view is added. Hope google will add more town's strret view on next update. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 61.18.170.144 (talk) 09:57, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Heathrow Airport
Why have they taken the pictures off of Heathrow Airport because I am going on Tuesday 11 August and I wanted to see where the car park was? MSalmon (talk) 21:35, 4 August 2009 (UTC)