Google Says Street View Images Now Cover 10 Million Miles

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Launched in the United States in 2007, Google's Street View project has mapped everything from roads to ski slopes in recent years, and it just took a major step: 10 million kilometers of captured imagery. That's enough to stretch around Earth more than 400 times in a distinctive Street View car, Google told CNET. It's the first time the tech giant has released reliable data on the scale of Street View. In addition to photographing roads, Street View has zoomed in on walking trails, interior buildings, mountains, and even the International Space Station. All of these images are also updated every few years. "Imagery is at the heart of everything we do," Ethan Russell, a product manager for Google Maps, told CNET. "We believe this is the foundation of the entire mapping process."

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Street View's 10 million mile benchmark may be less impressive to those who think Google already has too much data and information about us on record, though it certainly makes traveling easier. One of the ways Google is now using Street View is to power walking routes in augmented reality: if GPS proves unreliable, Google Maps can determine where you are by crossing Street View imagery. Apple now has its own Street View feature, called Look Around, which debuted in iOS 13 this year. However, it is still limited to certain parts of the United States. Google also told CNET that its Google Earth satellite images cover 98% of the inhabited world, roughly 36 million square miles, if you count. Via Gizmodo