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Google Earth Outreach is a charity program, through which Google promotes and donates to various non-profit organizations. Beginning in 2007, donations are often accompanied by layers featured in Google Earth, allowing users to view a non-profit's projects and goals by navigating to certain related locations. [92]
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
Google Street View coverage. The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver ...
A Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California in November 2010. The United States was the first country to have Google Street View images and was the only country with images for over a year following introduction of the service on May 25, 2007. Early on, most locations had a limited number of views, usually ...
“It’s quite easy with Google Earth these days to go on and find structures that are circular or semi-circular in origin,” Gordon Osinski, an Earth sciences professor at Western University in ...
Release. May 2013; 11 years ago (May 2013) Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. GeoGuessr is a browser-based geography game in which players are tasked to guess locations from Google Street View imagery. The game features multiple game modes, including singleplayer and multiplayer competitions.
On August 14, 2013, Google Street View became available for six cities: Lima, Arequipa, Trujillo, Chiclayo, Iquitos [ 9] and Piura. Later 2013 some long road stretches became available. The highest road in the world which is shown in Street View, is located at 11.598095°S 76.192288°W on 4,818 metres (15,807 ft) altitude.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...