Street View
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Singapore firm offers street-level maps, too
News Local mapping startup Gothere.sg, provides street-level images covering 70 percent of country; intends to integrate these with Google's Street View service.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web services, Singapore, photograph, API, search engine company, camera, Pittsburgh, team
S'pore: First Street View in Southeast Asia
News update Singapore is likely to be first in the region to have Google's Street View panoramic photo feature enabled for the search giant's online digital map services.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Security, Google Inc., Spokesperson, Singapore, Japan, 360-degree, CNET Networks Inc., U.S.
S'pore transport regulator partners Google Maps
News Country's Land Transport Authority hopes to make public transport "choice mode" by offering Google Maps as part of travel planning service.
Tags: Location-based services, Transport, Google Inc., CEO, partnership, Singapore, ERP, Southeast Asia, Regulator, data-processing
Singapore gets Google Street View, finally
News Google's ground-level imagery feature called Street View, is at last a go in the island state.
Tags: Privacy, Location-based services, Google Inc., Trike, Computer, Asia-Pacific, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Japan, 360-degree
Navteq to supply Microsoft with 3D map data
News It takes a long time to drive every street in the world to supply your online map service with 3D data. Navteq is giving Microsoft some help for its new Bing maps.
Tags: Web services, Web sites, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., partnership, Web sites, 3D, laser, alliance, Benefit
Google begins blurring faces in Street View
News Technology that scours image database for faces responds to privacy concerns about Google Maps' all-seeing digital camera eye.
Tags: Web sites, Web services, Privacy, Web 2.0, Search, Google Inc., Database, Europe, 3D, phone
Group seeks blinders on Google Street View in Japan
News Google's Street View is "openly violating privacy rights," according to the head of an anti-surveillance state group in Japan. Google says it respects privacy.
Tags: Search, Privacy, Google Inc., Japan, photograph, Tokyo, News.com, professor, blog, information technology
Privacy group targets Google Street View UK
News The driver's-eye view of British roadways and sidewalks causes "clear embarrassment and damage" to residents, Privacy International tells the U.K. government.
Tags: Privacy, Google Inc., Privacy, Britain, CEO, Privacy International, British Broadcasting Corp., Eric Schmidt, U.K., Microsoft Office
US lawmaker wants Google Maps to blur certain buildings
News Proposed California state law would criminalize displaying churches, hospitals, government buildings and schools on online maps unless they were blurred.
Tags: Privacy, Security, Republican, India, Google Inc., Google Earth, Computerworld, First Amendment, assemblyman, Mumbai
Google Street View goes live in Australia, Japan
News The island nations are now visible through Google Maps' Street View service.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Australia, Europe, 3D, Sydney, Japan, Osaka
Google Earth's virtual Roman holiday
News Google Earth is extending its satellite perspective to give virtual time-traveling tourists a view of what the city of Rome looked like nearly two millennia ago.
Tags: Web sites, City, Satellite, Google Inc., Google Earth, Tool, University of California at Los Angeles, computer graphics, University of Virginia, blog
Google finds no privacy on private roads
News Residents in Northern California complain that drivers hired to collect Google's Street View images are disregarding private property signs and driving up private roads.
Tags: Legal, Privacy, Google Inc., Privacy, Vint Cerf, photograph, Internet, blog, California, spokesman
Google: No such thing as complete privacy
News The company takes issue with a Pittsburgh couple's lawsuit that alleges Google's Street View service invaded their privacy.
Tags: Privacy, Web sites, Web 2.0, Satellite, Google Inc., Privacy, phone, photograph, News.com, Internet
Google now erases faces, license plates on Map Street View
News After getting flack for taking pictures of people's faces and license plates for its map views, Google now lets anyone report to have recognizable images removed.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web browsers, Web sites
Google launches privacy channel on YouTube
News Google starts public education campaign about its privacy practices on YouTube one day before Federal Trade Commission holds behavioral ad targeting event.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Privacy
