Street View Facts
- Our
drivers told us the biggest challenge to driving the UK was....the
British weather!
- The optimum weather
conditions for capturing Street View imagery are dry and slightly
overcast skies - rain, snow, fog and hail are the worst.
- Street View uses state of the art face detection technology to blur
faces - this blurring technology was added for new imagery in Manhatten
in May 2008. This is a new technology and sometimes we get some false
positives - in some cases you can find we've blurred the face of a
horse or even a statue!
- Geography, population density, weather and
traffic are just some of the logistical issues that can affect the time
it takes to cover a selected area so it can take several months to
cover an area.
- The Street View mascot is called Pegman He's called pegman
because he looks like a clothes peg. He
sometimes gets dressed up for holidays and other special occasions. In
the past he's been a snowman, a hippie, a witch, Uncle Sam, riding a
bike in the Tour de France.
- Street View has been used for some imaginative purposes including one Google employee who proposed to his girlfriend via Street View. Police in US used Street View to find the location of a kidnapped child.
Street View in numbers - 12 - the average number of panoramas a user looks at each time they use Street View.
- 15
- the number of times a day that Street View drivers have to climb on
top of the roof to clean lenses, cover up when raining and check
equipment
- some use small step ladders to make it easier.
- 25 - the number of cities first available in Street View for UK in March 2009 (London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Bradford, Cambridge, Cardiff, Belfast,
Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield, Nottingham,
Derby, Bristol, Coventry, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Swansea, York, Newcastle,
Dundee, Southampton, Norwich, Scunthorpe).
- Approximately 210,000 additional miles have been added to SV with this imagery update, bringing the total now available to around 238,000 miles
- Tens of millions - the number of images that have been captured for Street View so far.
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