Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as - Streetview!

 After such a day of excitement we are on to the wonderful world of the wide open vista - brought to you by ‘Google Street View’.  So let's talk about Streetview.



It all began in 2007.  Apparently it is mostly photography is done by car, but some is done by tricycle, camel, boat, snowmobile and on foot - they have a camera in a rucksack.




Google announced in May 2017 that it had captured more than 10 million miles (16 million kilometres) of Street View imagery across 83 countries.Maps also include panoramic views taken underwater such as in West Nusa Tenggara underwater coral, in the Grand Canyon, inside museums, and Liwa Desert in United Arab Emirates, which is viewed from camelback  In a ten-day trek with Apa Sherpa, Google documented Khumbu, Nepal with its Mount Everest, Sherpa communities, monasteries and schools.




In June 2022, Google announced the company is relaunching their Street View service in India. The announcement came six years after the feature was banned in India over security concerns. The company has partnered with local technology businesses Tech Mahindra and Genesys to aid in the relaunch of the service. As of July 2022, the service is live in 10 cities in India.




Andorra is a relatively late addition.  I remember looking longingly from roads in Spain to the forbidden country.  Most views seem to date from October 2014 but apparently they arrived on 25th September 2012. People have complained that people have been identified leaving strip clubs or being on anti-choice protests.  Faces are blurred.  My own dear beloved has had such a thing done to her.  Spain was an early adopted - 27th October 2008.





Apparently Police Scotland received an apology for wasting police time in 2014 from a local business owner in Edinburgh who, in 2012, staged a fake murder for the Google camera car by lying in the road "while his colleague stood over him with a pickaxe handle"


On 18th December 2024 The Telegraph reported A Spanish couple have been arrested on suspicion of murder after Google Street View cameras appear to have caught the man loading a body into the boot of his car. Police renewed their investigation into the disappearance of a Cuban man in the tiny hamlet of Tajueco after Google published the image two months ago. Last week, they found a male torso in a nearby cemetery and confirmed it was the missing man’s, named only by his initials, JPLO.’



So, keep your eyes peeled for adventure.









































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