{"id":9554,"date":"2022-07-27T13:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9554"},"modified":"2022-07-27T13:27:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T13:27:05","slug":"google-maps-launches-street-view-in-india-after-11-year-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/google-maps-launches-street-view-in-india-after-11-year-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps launches Street View in India after 11-year wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps launches Street View in India after 11-year wait. Alphabet Inc\u2019s (GOOGL.O) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\">Google Maps<\/a> on Wednesday launched its panoramic Street View service in 10 Indian cities in partnership with Tech Mahindra and Genesys, 11 years after a first attempt ran into regulatory troubles.<\/p>\n<p>The feature, which offers 360-degree views of streets around the world using photos taken by cruising vehicles, has faced privacy complaints and regulatory scrutiny in many countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian launch comes after Google was denied permission at least twice in the last decade by the government over security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Company executives said on Wednesday it was able to meet the regulatory requirements thanks to a new geospatial policy from India last year, which allows foreign map operators to provide panoramic imagery by licensing the data from local partners.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/russia-fines-google-360-mn-over-ukraine-content.html\">Russia fines Google $360 mn over Ukraine content<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Data collection was entirely done by Tech Mahindra and Genesys, Google said, adding the service would be available in over 50 Indian cities by the end of this year.<\/p>\n<p>Street View imagery will blur out faces of individuals and license plates to address privacy concerns, said Miriam Daniel, Vice President of Google Maps Experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s announcement coincided with a similar feature launch from MapmyIndia (CEIF.NS), which powers Apple Inc\u2019s (AAPL.O) maps in the country. Its Mappls RealView is live across thousands of cities, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Google also announced a partnership with India\u2019s Central Pollution Control Board to provide air quality information over maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps launches Street View in India after 11-year wait. Alphabet Inc\u2019s (GOOGL.O) Google Maps on Wednesday launched its panoramic Street View service in 10 Indian cities in partnership with Tech Mahindra and Genesys, 11 years after a first attempt ran into regulatory troubles. The feature, which offers 360-degree views of streets around the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[312],"class_list":["post-9554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-technology","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}