Re:What Ever Happened to Google Books?
by kuschku on Saturday September 12, 2015 @08:31AM
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In my region, their data is from 2005, with no MapMaker available, so people always end up in my suburb and ask where the freeway is.
StreetView is only available in some areas, after Google put their cameras at a height of 3.5m, far above eye level, and needing written permission from everyone (cause people built hedges and fences with eyelevel in mind, so people might be in their frontyard, behind a hedge, naked, and now Google photographs that – big no-go). Just another thing where Google thought violating reasonable laws would be possible for them.
In the end, their quality is hit and miss, and the cost is too high. No public transit data, not the ability to download larger areas, etc.
StreetView is only available in some areas, after Google put their cameras at a height of 3.5m, far above eye level, and needing written permission from everyone (cause people built hedges and fences with eyelevel in mind, so people might be in their frontyard, behind a hedge, naked, and now Google photographs that – big no-go). Just another thing where Google thought violating reasonable laws would be possible for them.
In the end, their quality is hit and miss, and the cost is too high. No public transit data, not the ability to download larger areas, etc.