Artificial intelligence based facial recognition is improving over time. However, it is a bit too good at recognising faces as two recent stories illustrate. The first problem is Google's automatic … [Read more...]
Komodo Dragons in Street View
August 10, 2016
Google has just released Street View imagery of Komodo Island, Indonesia, as well as significantly increasing the coverage for the rest of Indonesia. There are also a number of new underwater Street … [Read more...]
Image recognition and Google Earth
July 28, 2016
The last few years have seen major advances in computer artificial intelligence (AI). One area where AI is starting to show practical use is in imagery recognition. Google Earth and Street View … [Read more...]
Street View Tour Maker by Steven Ho
July 19, 2016
Steven Ho, whose excellent work we have covered many times in the past, has recently produced a tool for creating Street View tours. The tool and details on how to use it can be found on his blog … [Read more...]
Sheep View
July 18, 2016
Google Street View coverage has been increasing at a steady pace for the last few years, with new countries being added every few months. There are, however, still many places that do not have Street … [Read more...]
Street View extended coverage and problems: Bangladesh and Mongolia
July 7, 2016
It's been a couple of months since Kyrgyzstan got Street View, so we thought we would have a look at the changes since then. As you can see below, the main additions are a near doubling of area … [Read more...]
Street View comes to Kyrgyzstan
May 10, 2016
Thank you to GEB reader 'ecksemmess' for letting us know that Kyrgyzstan has just received Street View. Kyrgyzstan Street View coverage. The last major Street View addition was Sri Lanka in late … [Read more...]
Street View Trekker visits Thailand
March 30, 2016
Thailand has had Street View as far back as 2012. This post on the Google LatLong Blog says that over 150 other places and national treasures have recently received Street View. However, many of the … [Read more...]
The Batcave now visible in Street View
March 28, 2016
As revealed by Google Maps Mania, "Bruce Wayne's residence" has been captured in Street View and it includes the Batcave. It is not true Street View, but what Google calls either 'Business View' or … [Read more...]
Sri Lanka gets Street View
March 23, 2016
Google has recently released Street View for the country of Sri Lanka. Read more about it on the Google LatLong blog. As of this writing the blue outlines for the Sri Lankan Street View are not yet … [Read more...]