According to a report on Thursday, the Indian government rejected Google’s plans to cover India through the Google Street View. Google is allowed by Street View to put Indian cities, tourists spots, hills and rivers in an application where one can explore through 360-degree, panoramic and street-level imagery. Also a similar view inside locations such as museums, arenas, restaurants and small businesses is allowed by Street View.
In 2007 in five US cities Street View was launched to give people, what Google calls a feet on the ground experience and immediate access to the places you want to visit. Even Antarctica, which is the world’s southernmost continent started receiving Street View mapping service by 2010, due to Internet search giant Google. This enabled users to navigate all those places which very few people may ever be able to visit in person, like the snow capped mountains, icebergs of Antarctica and even spot several Penguin colonies, everything captured on Google’s cameras. From that time the mapping service has gained importance.
In the latest report we find that the Street View has expanded their 360 degree panoramic views for including locations of all seven continents of the world. On the whole it covers more than 65 countries and a distance of more than seven million miles. In anticipation of the 2016 Olympics Games which will attract millions of people to Brazil this summer, Google’s Street View team has mapped the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro. In order to give those people who plan to go to Rio, an idea of the area before actually visiting it, they have been provided with up-to-date Street View imagery of Rio’s streets and neighbourhoods and indoor imagery of more than 200 hotels, restaurants and bars across the city by the Street View team. Unfortunately Google Street View is accused of accumulating WiFi data while its Street View cars and trucks toured cities for taking photographs.