Google launches Street View imagery of nine more Canadian cities
More than 20 Canadian cities now viewable in Street View in Google Maps
Toronto, 2 December 2009—Today Google launched Street View imagery for nine additional cities in Canada, bringing the number of Canadian cities available in the service to more than 20. The new cities are: Victoria, Nanaimo, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Sudbury, London, Sherbrooke, and St. John's.
Street View imagery has also launched today for Singapore, more cities in France and Japan, and special sites including Stonehenge, Pompei, the Palace of Versailles, and SeaWorld San Diego and Orlando. In addition, this week Google is capturing images of the 2010 Winter Games venues in Vancouver and Whistler—the first special collection of Street View imagery in Canada.
This free service in Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Maps for Mobile offers 360-degree street-level imagery of more than 250 cities around the world. To view Street View imagery where it is available, simply zoom into the lowest level on Google Maps (maps.google.ca) or drag the orange "Pegman" icon on the left-hand side of the map onto a blue-lined street. In addition to individuals, Canadian businesses can benefit from Street View by embedding Google Maps directly into their website for free, to help them promote their sites or raise awareness of a local landmark.
Street View in Google Maps contains still images only, and therefore these images will not be real-time. As with all other Street View images globally, Google will apply facial and licence-plate blurring to protect people's privacy, and people will be able to report images for removal by clicking on 'Report a problem' in any image. Google has consulted with Canada's federal and provincial Privacy Commissioners in developing Street View and its privacy safeguards.
More details are available at google.ca/streetview and on their press site (sites.pressatgoogle.com/streetviewcanada).
Notable facts
• More than 50,000km of Canadian imagery are now launched in Street View in Google Maps
• More than 20 Canadian cities are now viewable in Street View: Vancouver, Whistler, Squamish, Victoria, Nanaimo, Banff, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Sudbury, London, Montreal, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Halifax, and St. John's
• Street View has proven so popular that, on the day of its initial launch for Canada (7 October 2009), global traffic to Street View on Google Maps doubled
Linda Heredia
Consultant
APEX Public Relations Inc.
600-1075 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M5S 2B1
416-924-4442 ext. 240
http://www.apexpr.com/
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