More Street Views Brought to You by Google

Street View, the Google Maps function that provides high-quality panoramas for free, is once again updated by the Mountain View company as it plans to expand the coverage of the service. In an announcement made today, Bradley Bossard, Software Engineer, mentioned that high-resolution imagery with no less than 13 new metropolitan areas and a national park is now available on Street View. This means that 6 of the cities already existent in Google Maps Street View provide expanded coverage.

"Just over a month ago, we brought you a dozen new cities in Street View, and now I'm excited to say we're topping that. We've added imagery for 13 new metropolitan areas - and a national park! We have expanded our coverage in 6 of our existing cities," Bradley Bossard proudly announced today. According to the Google official, the updated areas are:

￭ Albuquerque, NM
￭ Anchorage, AK
￭ Austin, TX
￭ Cleveland, OH
￭ Fairbanks, AK
￭ Little Rock, AR
￭ Madison, WI
￭ Nashville, TN
￭ Rockford, IL
￭ Richmond, VA
￭ Spokane, WA
￭ St. Petersburg, FL
￭ Tampa, FL
￭ Yosemite National Park, CA

Besides the mentioned areas, Google has also added more coverage for several cities, as it follows: Denver, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Pittsburg and San Francisco Bay Area.

As you may remember, Google Maps Street View is a feature that caused lots of contradictory discussions as some people considered that this new function shows way too many details and makes them accessible to the entire world. For example, some users who appeared in the Street View photos requested the removal of the pictures because they captured them in all kinds of moments which shouldn't be made public.

However, Google has always defended itself by mentioning that Google Maps Street View shows nothing more than the information accessible from the street, so it doesn't infringe privacy rights or something similar.