| Google Street View launches in Canada |
| Written by Vancouver Computer Repair |
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As of today, residents in several Canadian cities can check out their streets, homes and neighbourhoods on Google Street View. The Google Maps feature was rolled out today displaying images on the Internet from a street-level perspective. The service is now available in Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Vancouver, Squamish, B.C., Whistler, B.C., Ottawa, Kitchener, Ont., and Waterloo, Ont. Once on a Google map, the user clicks and drags the image of a small yellow figure on a left-side scale and places it on the map. A photo of the street, including a 360-degree view, then appears. In response to privacy concerns, Google has said it would blur the faces of people captured in the photos used in Street View. Street View was earlier made available in the United States and several other countries across Europe and in Australia and Japan. Google began filming Street View images in the Canadian cities brought online today since 2007. |
