Saturday, March 21, 2009

Google Street View is coming to Switzerland!!!

Fleets of cars fitted with special cameras have begun trawling Swiss cities to collect images for Google's new Street View mapping service.

Street View adds detailed street-level pictures to the search engine's existing Google Maps application, but the new format has raised concerns among some privacy campaigners.

On Thursday Google's odd-looking camera cars, with 360-degree cameras mounted on their roofs, began crawling through urban areas in cantons Geneva, Zurich and Bern to record real street images. More...

Latest: Swiss watchdog demands shutdown of Google Street View...

See also:

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  3. Romans flee Google Street View car!!! WTF!
  4. Google Street View and the privacy factor...

1 comment:

  1. I've seen a Google-Car a few weeks ago in Winterthur.

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