What is Google Street View? How does it works?

What is Google Street View?

Google Street View

Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps that provides the panoramic views from various streets of the world. It was launched on May 25, 2007 by Google in several cities in the United States, since then it has expanded to many cities and areas of the world. Till today, Google Street View is launched in about 80 countries of the world.

How Google Street View works?

Google Street View displays panoramas of the images. For this, Google uses the cars on which high resolution 360 degree cameras are mounted and these cars travels in whole cities and take up photographs of the streets and monuments.

Then, these photographs are uploaded by Google for Street View. On these cars 12 cameras are fixed to take up photographs from different angles and sides. These photographs are upgraded from time to time.

As cars are not capable to travel at all places, Google also uses trekker, tricycle, walking mans, boat, snow cart, and underwater boats to take up the panoramic shots.

We can also upload some panoramic shots of the place on the Google Street View using gadgets. Google highlights user-contributed shots with blue circles on the Maps.

Businesses like shops, cafes, malls can pay a photographer to take panoramic shots of the interiors which are included in Google Street View with orange circles.

For privacy purpose, Google uses technology to blur faces of the pedestrians and moving cars number plates.
The another astounding feature of Bird Eye-View by Google allows us to observe how the city looks from the top. For this purpose, Google uses helicopters to capture panoramic views from the top. This Feature available in the big cities of the world.

Along with high resolution cameras, Google also uses laser beams for depth mapping to calculate the length and width of the streets and passages. And all these data is also as Artificial Intelligence in self-driving cars for better performance.

Google is requesting for Street View Feature in India but Indian Government is not agreeing for this matter. So this about the Google Street View.