Google has just pushed out another major update to Street View, this time adding imagery from a variety of zoos and animal parks around the world.
The list of updated areas includes:
Australia
Taronga Zoo (Sydney)
Brazil
Zoologico de Bauru
Canada
Jungle Cat World Wildlife Park (Ontario)
Toronto Zoo
Chile
Buin Zoo
China
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
Germany
Tierpark Hagenbeck
Zoo Safari Park Stukenbrock
Japan
Asahiyama Zoo
Mexico
Chapultepec Zoo
Singapore
Singapore Zoo
Taiwan
Shou Shan Zoo
United States
Atlanta Zoo
Chicago Zoo
Houston Zoo
San Diego Zoo
You can read more about these new additions on the Google Lat Long Blog, all of which are available on the new Views site as well as inside of Google Earth. If you’ve not used Street View inside of Google Earth before, the brief video below will show you how it’s done.
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I am not sure if it has been announced anywhere but Chile’s Street View has been expanded across the whole country and some cities in Peru have Street View as well.
While I am sure covering popular places such as zoos makes business sense for Google by attracting advertising, continuing to extend conventional Street View, as recently in Chile and Peru, is just as important in building the global appeal of the ‘product’.
Incidentally, the new coverage in Peru includes long lengths of road through the high Andes and the coastal deserts – amazing landscapes. And in Chile you can visit the southernmost point of Street Vies in the Americas … so far, but hoping for more.
It’s strange that google included views from a Chinese Park. I thought that region was discontinued.
Why in Google Earth for those places are not available blue lines on the map?