Google has brought its street-level imagery to the U.K. and the Netherlands, bringing the total number of countries covered to nine.
Street View, launched in 2007 in the U.S., offers a 360-degree ground-level view of the streets. Google began gathering imagery for the U.K. last summer, and keen observers spotted cars equipped with large cameras.
That touched off privacy concerns over Street View, but Google has been given the all-clear by the Information Commissioner's Office, the U.K.'s data protection agency, said Ed Parsons, a Google geospatial technologist at a press event Thursday. Google also cleared the project with Scotland Yard, headquarters for British law enforcement.
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Street View, launched in 2007 in the U.S., offers a 360-degree ground-level view of the streets. Google began gathering imagery for the U.K. last summer, and keen observers spotted cars equipped with large cameras.
That touched off privacy concerns over Street View, but Google has been given the all-clear by the Information Commissioner's Office, the U.K.'s data protection agency, said Ed Parsons, a Google geospatial technologist at a press event Thursday. Google also cleared the project with Scotland Yard, headquarters for British law enforcement.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/161531/article.html?tk=nl_dnxnws