{"id":654125,"date":"2013-04-23T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=145080"},"modified":"2013-04-23T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T12:16:22","slug":"google-street-view-hits-50-country-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/654125","title":{"rendered":"Google Street View hits 50 country milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-145118\" title=\"Google street view hungary\" src=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Google-street-view-hungary-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"261\" \/>Google Street View, which started with a few major cities in the United States back in 2007, has now expanded to 50 nations.\u00a0Ulf Spitzer, Program Manager for Google Street View, <a href=\"http:\/\/google-latlong.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/celebrating-50th-country-on-street-view.html\" >announces<\/a> today the latest round of updates which brings the service to two more countries, rounding up the new total to half a century.<\/p>\n<p>The latest additions are Hungary and Lesotho. Spitzer also tells us that, in addition to the new countries, the mapping service is also expanding coverage in other locations. &#8220;We\u2019re also refreshing and expanding existing Street View coverage in France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore and Thailand. And, we\u2019ve added new special collections of a host of picturesque spots &#8212; using our\u00a0Street View Trike<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/maps\/streetview\/learn\/cars-trikes-and-more.html\">\u00a0<\/a>technology &#8212; that include Portugal\u2019s\u00a0Pena National Palace, or the\u00a0Sha Tin Che Kung Temple\u00a0in Hong Kong or the\u00a0Kilkenny Castle in Ireland,&#8221; Spitzer says.<\/p>\n<p>This is the\u00a0largest single update\u00a0of Street View imagery that Google has ever pushed, and it includes new and updated views for nearly 350,000 miles of roads across 14 different countries.<\/p>\n<p>The company has gone to such far-flung locations as the Great Barrier Reef, Mount Everest and Antarctica. Users\u00a0can now navigate more than 5 million miles of the world, without ever leaving their computers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=dU0UX-BqXU4:0cpr226ej3w:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=dU0UX-BqXU4:0cpr226ej3w:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/dU0UX-BqXU4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Street View, which started with a few major cities in the United States back in 2007, has now expanded to 50 nations.\u00a0Ulf Spitzer, Program Manager for Google Street View, announces today the latest round of updates which brings the service to two more countries, rounding up the new total to half a century. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}