Street view does a half ass job

[J Route Z]

They add recent images in one area, but the adjacent town still has images from 2007. Or in the same town, they have some streets updated but the rest are older.

[freebrickproductions]

I think it's because Google updates a certain number of streets at one time. It also depends on the county(ies) the towns are in too, IIRC.

[adventurernumber1]

Before 2013, GM Street View was terrible with getting street view in Dalton, or at least for most areas of it and around it. Before 2013, they hardly had any street view on SR 52, US 41 (especially on the south bypass stretch), Dixie Highway (sometimes also designated as US 41, and was US 41's original path in Dalton), and lots of other roads. About 90% of street view was in downtown and it wasn't even on the main roads!!! But in 2013 they added a lot of street view to Dalton (and of course it's new too  ), covering pretty much all of all of the main roads, and lots of back roads all over the Dalton area. Now that issue is absent. Also, before 2013 all the available street view was from 2007 with a smidget of it from 2011.

Back to the point of the thread, it would be hard for GM to cover every road in each town/city. But for the roads that have newer, high-quality street view, may we be thankful for it and enjoy it.

[agentsteel53]

I just wish they'd fix their facial recognition software to not blur out the route shields. 

[Mdcastle]

Those route shields have a right to privacy too!




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[adventurernumber1]

I just wish they'd fix their facial recognition software to not blur out the route shields.

We don't want anyone stalking US 41! But I think I saw him standing on the side of the road. Uh oh..we gotta bad@$$ ova here! 

[Bruce]

I just wish they'd fix their facial recognition software to not blur out the route shields. 

As long as Washington uses a silhouette for their shields, it will be blurred.

[dgolub]

I just wish they'd fix their facial recognition software to not blur out the route shields. 

As long as Washington uses a silhouette for their shields, it will be blurred.

It's not just Washington.  They're blurred out all over the place.  It's very annoying.

[algorerhythms]

My guess is the algorithm sees black numbers on a white background, thinks "license plate", and blurs it out.

[Alex]

I just wish they'd fix their facial recognition software to not blur out the route shields.

Exactly, the lone remaining I-66 shield with District of Columbia in it (that I can find) is blurred no matter what angle you try to view it. Even the older imagery blurs it...

[cl94]

They only recently added Ithaca, NY and the surrounding region. It is not a sparsely-populated area.

[vdeane]

Also Corning and Rome.  Saratoga Springs is still waiting for decent street view.  And I have no idea why Google seems to be pretending that southern Seneca County doesn't exist.

[cl94]

Also the Hudson Valley, namely between Kingston and Albany. The entire Berkshire Spur is either nonexistent or such poor quality that it is unintelligible.