Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
by DasIch on Monday February 08, 2016 @09:11PM
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This only affects Street View which Google has abandonded in Germany.
Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
by schrodinger on Monday February 08, 2016 @11:39PM
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I know that google uses street view to determine street addresses by OCRing the numbers on the side of houses. Maybe even more of their mapping relies on it?
Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
by kuschku on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @12:34AM
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That concerns street view.
But Google has bought access to the government map data (GeoBasis-DE for Germany, I posted a screenshot of what GeoBasis-DE shows for the area above).
Google has bought the mapdata, can use it, but doesn't.
https://gigaom.com/2014/12/05/googles-cars-return-to-german-...
"Google started automatically blurring faces and number plates, it was forced to give Germans the option of having their houses blurred out as well – something hundreds of thousands of people took the firm up on.
However, this was a costly business, with Google needing to hire temporary workers to manually blur out selected buildings. It also didn’t stop people trying to sue the U.S. company over alleged privacy infringement. So, in 2011, Google said it was giving up on Street View in Germany – the pre-existing images remain online, but they haven’t been updated in three years."