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Re:Google Maps launches Street View in India by ra7 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @06:45PM (#32258047)
I think you’re really overestimating Street View’s impact. Anyone remotely interested in India is already aware of how far behind the key infrastructure is and how governments have failed them. Street View is the last thing they will be looking at for confirmation.

Governments haven’t cared about failures when actual users of the infrastructure (Indian citizens) have complained. Things aren’t going to change because Google is now showing how streets look like for someone outside India.

Re:Google Maps launches Street View in India by z9znz on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @07:10PM (#32258283)
> Things aren’t going to change because Google is now showing how streets look like for someone outside India.

One can hope that the ease of checking up on ground-level progress would help speed improvement, because global financing organizations might require some OKRs as a condition of participating in financing things or providing aid.