Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2023 August 16

= August 16 =

Street View
Why is Bosnia and Herzegovina not in Google Street View? There are some user-submitted photos there, but why Google cars are not allowed to operate in the country? --40bus (talk) 19:22, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I just looked at Google Maps for Sarajevo, and it certainly looks like they have proper Street View stuff. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:22, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I just looked at Google Maps for Sarajevo, and while street view does work, the coverage is rather sparse. Initially I couldn't drop the street-view-guy until I zoomed out a bit and then the places I could drop the marker showed up in a blue highlight. There are whole neighborhoods that have no street view. 41.23.55.195 (talk) 06:45, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Google Street View privacy concerns and Google Street View in Europe may be of interest: many places in the World have both public privacy concerns and national laws governing photography that can conflict with GSV operations. Additionally, Sarajevo in particular and Bosnia and Herzegovina in general have had recent historical situations (war, rioting, flooding) that might have proved inimical to Google's trundling their Yankee spy vans around every street (as some would see it). Not everyone is comfortable with a goldfish-bowl environment administered by unelected commercial interests. (I for one welcome our new entrepreneurial capitalist overlords.) {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.140.169 (talk) 10:43, 17 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Google Street View is not entirely unfettered in America, either. Their algorithms tend to blur out things that are considered sensitive in some way. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:51, 17 August 2023 (UTC)