Google Decides Against Resuming Street View Photography in Germany
Google Decides Against Resuming Street View Photography in Germany
Posted 04/11/2011 at 9:36pm
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German court last month declared street-level photography by Street View's car-mounted cameras to be legal when it dismissed a lawsuit alleging personal and property rights violations on the part of Google's Street View service. Despite the legal victory, and contrary to what most people might have expected, the company has decided against returning to the streets of Germany with the camera-toting vehicles it uses to collect street imagery for its popular Google Maps and Google Earth services.
"As we announced in January, we have no plans to launch new imagery on Street View in Germany at this stage. Our user priority is to use our Google cars to collect data such as street names and road signs to improve our basic maps for our users in a similar way that other mapping companies do,” a Google spokesperson told The Register.
That said, users will continue to have access to the existing street imagery from the 20 German cities already covered by the service. It isn't clear what exactly effected this change in priority or whether the internet giant remains open to reconsidering the decision at a later date.
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qhoa1385
April 12, 2011 at 3:56am
Well it's Germany's lost when they messed with Google... lol
Google is like, "oh now you want me to take your pictures? guess what, keep dreaming!"
this is just the way Google do to show who's incharge, I mean they don't lose anything if they can't take pictures ( at least that's what I think), and Germany people lose the great informations (I think)
still it's funny to see Google playing boss
KenLV
April 12, 2011 at 4:00pm
This was EXACTLY my thought. Screwed themselves out of a GREAT service. Silly silly people.
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