Google Street View

Recently, Google Maps released Street View feature to ten cities in India.

  • Launched in 2007, Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world.
  • It is an immersive 360-degree view of a location captured using special cameras.
  • In line with the National Geospatial Policy, 2021 that lets Indian companies collect map data and license it to others, Google tied up with Tech Mahindra and Mumbai-based Genesys International to enable Street View for 10 Indian cities initially.