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InEurope,Google Street View began on 2 July 2008 with the route ofTour de France being covered in parts ofFrance andItaly. The service has since expanded to many European countries, while at the same time has been controversial in some countries due to laws andprivacy concerns.
Following the introduction ofStreet View in the United States, there was talk of bringing the feature to Europe as well, but there were concerns over the legality of the feature due to stricter laws in most European countries than those of the United States regardingphotography.[2]
The first views anywhere outside the United States were introduced on July 2, 2008, when the Tour de France route was added. Nineteen camera icons, each indicating part of a French city or town andCuneo, Italy, were included.
On October 14, 2008, camera icons were introduced in six French cities,Lille,Lyon,Marseille,Nice,Paris andToulouse. At the same time, all other icons that had been introduced inFrance on July 2, as well as the one inCuneo,Italy, were removed, representing the first time in Street View's history that a camera icon that once marked a place was removed. However, the amount of coverage that France had since July 2 was not diminished.
On October 27, 2008, fourSpanishmetropolitan areas were added to the list of growing street view locations in Europe:Madrid,Barcelona,Seville andValencia.
On October 29, 2008,Italy received four camera icons for the localities ofFlorence,Milan,Rome andLake Como.
On March 18, 2009, theUnited Kingdom and theNetherlands were added. In the case of Great Britain, only major centres were uploaded and even coverage of those city centres was incomplete. For example,Edinburgh was missing Street View images of two of its key thoroughfares:Princes Street and theRoyal Mile (although portions of both were visible from adjoining streets that had been imaged).
In May 2009, GoogleGermany released a list ofGerman cities that were to be scanned or rescanned in May and June 2009.[3]
On August 18, 2009, areas inSwitzerland andPortugal were added.[4]
On October 7, 2009, parts of theCzech Republic were added.
On November 9, 2009, more locations in theNetherlands andSpain were added.
On December 2, 2009, more locations inFrance andItaly were added as well as various tourist sites inEngland.
On January 20, 2010,Sweden andDenmark were added, as well as more locations in the United Kingdom, Italy (7 regions are fully covered), Portugal, theCzech Republic (mostly Prague), and the Netherlands.
On February 9, 2010,Norway andFinland were added, with coverage of much of southern Norway and most of Finland. Imagery was updated for parts of the UK as well.
On March 11, 2010, 95% of the United Kingdom's roads, both rural and urban, covering a total of approximately 238,000 miles, were added. More locations in the Netherlands were also added.
On April 15, 2010, some major UKtheme parks were added includingAlton Towers,Thorpe Park,Chessington World of Adventures, andLegoland Windsor, as well as theSea Life Centre inWeymouth.
In May 2010, Google Street View Cars and Trikes were seen in Croatian cities and towns such asPula,Split,Dubrovnik, and the capital,Zagreb.[citation needed] This brings a Street View September dream to bothCroatia andAndorra available.
In August 2010, Google Street View Cars were photographingJersey,Guernsey andAlderney as well asSlovakia.[5] Also, ten Street View cars were delivered to the Latvian capitalRiga.[6]
On September 30, 2010, theRepublic of Ireland was added.
On December 8, 2010, parts ofRomania were added. More locations in theNetherlands,Denmark, andNorway were also added.
On February 1, 2011, Street Views were added of several art museums across Europe, including thePalace of Versailles, theState Hermitage Museum, theUffizi Gallery andTate Britain.[7]
In October 2011, theBernina Railway betweenSt. Moritz andTirano was photographed and was added to Street View in early 2012.[8] Bernina Railway is part of theRhaetian Railway and aUNESCO World Heritage Site.
On November 23, 2011, Street View became available for almost all ofBelgium. While Street View content had been recorded earlier, privacy issues kept Google from making it available to the public.[9]
On February 22, 2012, Street View became available for 3 major cities in Russia:St. Petersburg,Moscow, and small parts ofKazan. Museum views were made available in Russia in 2011 for St. Petersburg'sHermitage Museum and Moscow'sTretyakov Gallery.[10]Street Views of Piotrkowska Street inŁódź, Poland were also released.
On March 21, 2012, Street View became available inPoland for most major cities and landmarks.
On April 19, 2012, 5Ukrainian cities were added:Donetsk,Lviv,Kharkiv,Kyiv, andOdesa.
On May 14, 2012,Estonia andLatvia were added. NearbyLithuania is currently being photographed.
On September 26, 2012,Croatia andAndorra were added.[11]
On October 30, 2012,Slovakia was added.
On January 31, 2013,Lithuania was added.
On March 8, 2013,Bulgaria and most major cities ofRussia were added.
On April 23, 2013,Hungary was added. TheKaliningrad Oblast exclave ofRussia was also added and almost all places inPoland andRomania, except for the major cities added earlier.
On October 10, 2013,Iceland was added.
On November 15, 2013,Venice was added, with photographs taken by backpackers and gondolas.[12]
On January 29, 2014Slovenia and even more areas ofRussia were added.[13]
On June 5, 2014,Greece was added.
On July 23, 2014,Serbia was added, with coverage of the three largest cities (Belgrade,Novi Sad andNiš).
On August 20, 2014, more locations inBelgium,Denmark, andHungary were added. Various waterfalls, geysers, and trails inIceland were also added.
On September 26, 2014, more locations inDenmark,Hungary and theNetherlands were added.
On October 23, 2014,Luxembourg was added.
On January 21, 2015, more locations inRussia andRomania were added.
On February 18, 2015, more locations inSerbia andRussia were added.
On October 8, 2015,North Macedonia was added. More locations inUkraine were also added.
On October 22, 2015,Turkey was added. More locations inBulgaria were also added.
On November 10, 2016,Albania was added.
On October 28, 2017,Malta and theFaeroe Islands were added.
On July 11, 2018,Austria was added.
On October 26, 2019,Belarus was added with a small coverage of the historical center ofMinsk.
On July 25, 2023,Germany was reintroduced with the old coverage removed while 2022 new coverage was released all over the country.[14]
Note: Nearly all locations in Europe are available in high quality view.
Major towns and roads
Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads
Some indoor museum and garden views in Vienna (Volksgarten,Burgtheater,Schönbrunn and more). Ski pistes at theSölden andIschgl resorts,Österreichring race track. In general without people in the images.
General streets and roads were published years after most European countries, due to legal issues. In July 2018 images fromVienna,Graz,Klagenfurt,Linz,Wiener Neustadt,Eisenstadt,Baden bei Wien,Villach andSalzburg were published, as well as some roads inVorarlberg andTirol and the cc.[54][55]
On June 18, 2020, Street View published major roads and highways all throughout Austria, in everystate.
Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads
Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads
In 2022, Google started capturing images again after 11 years. Then in September 2023 they started capturing images, and in May 2024.
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Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads. Several small rural roads are missing inBornholm.
TheFaroe Islands has high coverage, also for minor roads.Tórshavn,Klaksvík,Hoyvík,Argir,Vágur,Vestmanna,Tvøroyri,Miðvágur,Sørvágur,Toftir,Saltangará,Kollafjørður,Strendur,Sandavágur,Hvalba,Eiði,Sandur, and more locations in theFaroe Islands[56]
Greenland also has some coverage, described inGoogle Street View in North America.
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Some overseas areas have coverage. SeeGoogle Street View in Africa,Google Street View in North America andGoogle Street View in Oceania.
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Due to legal and other issues, coverage was previously mostly restricted to major cities. However, on June 8, 2023, Google announced that Google Street View was returning to Germany,[57] and soon released extensive official coverage.[14]
In July 2023, Google resumed and expanded Street View coverage in Germany after a 12-year pause, adding refreshed imagery of cities such as Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. The rollout included privacy enhancements like automatic blurring of faces and license plates, while retaining the option for residents to request additional blurring of private property.[58]
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Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads, and tripods inRiga
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Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads, and well as trekkers and tripods inVilnius,Kaunas,Kernave,Klaipėda andPalanga.
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Most major, minor roads
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No coverage inSvalbard andJan Mayen, apart from photo spheres
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This includes the main islands ofMadeira andAzores.
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| Federal District | Major cities/subjects/areas covered |
|---|---|
| European Russia | |
| Central | Belgorod Oblast (mostly full coverage),Bryansk Oblast (mostly full coverage),Vladimir Oblast (limited coverage),Voronezh Oblast (limited coverage by Google; big coverage by not official Google imagery within a radius of 150 km from Voronezh, including administrative centres of several districts),Ivanovo Oblast (mostly full coverage),Kaluga Oblast (limited coverage),Kostroma Oblast (Kostroma and roads in and out of Kostroma only),Kursk Oblast (Kursk, administrative centres of some districts and connecting roads only),Lipetsk Oblast (Yelets,Lipetsk, and connecting roads only),Moscow (Full coverage),Moscow Oblast (mostly full coverage),Oryol Oblast (Oryol,Livny, and connecting roads only),Ryazan Oblast (Ryazan and connecting roads only),Smolensk Oblast (Smolensk,Roslavl,Vyazma, and connecting roads only),Tambov Oblast (Tambov,Michurinsk, and connecting roads only),Tver Oblast (Tver,Torzhok,Staritsa, and connecting roads only),Tula Oblast (mostly full coverage),Yaroslavl Oblast (mostly full coverage) |
| North Caucasian | Dagestan Republic (limited coverage),Ingushetia Republic (extremely limited coverage),Kabardino-Balkar Republic (extremely limited coverage),Karachay-Cherkessia Republic (limited coverage),North Ossetia-Alania Republic (limited coverage),Stavropol Krai (Stavropol,Pyatigorsk,Essentuki,Kislovodsk, and connecting roads only),Chechen Republic (limited coverage) |
| Northwestern | Arkhangelsk Oblast (Arkhangelsk and connecting roads only),Vologda Oblast (Cherepovets,Vologda, and connecting roads only),Kaliningrad Oblast (mostly full coverage),Karelia Republic (limited coverage),Komi Republic (limited coverage, with views inVorkuta),Leningrad Oblast (mostly full coverage),Murmansk Oblast (limited coverage),Nenets Autonomous Okrug (extremely limited coverage),Novgorod Oblast (limited coverage),Pskov Oblast (limited coverage),Saint Petersburg (full coverage) |
| Southern | Adygea Republic (mostly full coverage),Astrakhan Oblast (Astrakhan and connecting roads only),Volgograd Oblast (Volgograd and connecting roads only),Kalmykia Republic (Elista and connecting roads only),Krasnodar Krai (mostly full coverage),Rostov Oblast (limited coverage) |
| Volga | Bashkortostan Republic (limited coverage),Kirov Oblast (extremely limited coverage byGoogle; mostly full coverage by not official Google imagery),Mari-El Republic (Yoshkar-Ola and connecting roads only),Mordovia Republic (Saransk andKrasnoslobodsk only),Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (limited coverage),Orenburg Oblast (Orsk,Novotroitsk, andOrenburg only),Penza Oblast (Penza and connecting roads only),Perm Krai (Perm and connecting roads only),Samara Oblast (limited coverage),Saratov Oblast (limited coverage),Tatarstan Republic (limited coverage),Udmurt Republic (Votkinsk,Izhevsk,Glazov,Sarapul,Mozhga and connecting roads only),Ulyanovsk Oblast (Dimitrovgrad,Ulyanovsk, and connecting roads only),Chuvash Republic (Cheboksary and connecting roads only) |
| Siberia andFar East | |
| Far Eastern | Amur Oblast (Blagoveshchensk and connecting roads only),Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Birobidzhan and connecting roads only),Kamchatka Krai (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,Yelizovo, Paratunka,Milkovo,Esso,Klyuchi, and connecting roads only),Magadan Oblast (Magadan and connecting roads only),Primorsky Krai (mostly full coverage),Sakha Republic (Yakutsk,Neryungri and connecting roads only),Sakhalin Oblast (mostly full coverage),Khabarovsk Krai (Khabarovsk,Komsomolsk-on-Amur, and connecting roads),Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (no coverage) |
| Siberian | Altai Republic (extremely limited coverage),Altai Krai (Rubtsovsk,Barnaul, and connecting roads),Buryatia Republic (mostly full coverage),Zabaykalsky Krai (extremely limited coverage),Irkutsk Oblast (limited coverage),Kemerovo Oblast (limited coverage),Krasnoyarsk Krai (limited coverage),Novosibirsk Oblast (Novosibirsk,Tatarsk,Barabinsk, and connecting roads only),Omsk Oblast (mostly full coverage),Tomsk Oblast (Tomsk and connecting roads only),Tuva Republic (extremely limited coverage),Khakassia Republic (extremely limited coverage) |
| Ural | Kurgan Oblast (Kurgan and connecting roads only),Sverdlovsk Oblast (limited coverage),Tyumen Oblast (limited coverage),Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (mostly full coverage),Chelyabinsk Oblast (mostly full coverage),Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (limited coverage) |
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Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads
In 2021 and 2022, Google started Capturing images again.
Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads. This includes theBalearic Islands and theCanary Islands.
Ceuta andMelilla have some coverage.
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Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads. SeeGoogle Street View in Asia#Turkey.
Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads. Many small gaps in residential areas.
Most towns, cities, major roads, some villages and rural roads. Excluding the Russian occupied territories.
Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads. IncludingGibraltar,Jersey andIsle of Man.
However, many rural and suburban areas have not been updated since 2009/10.
Foroverseas territories, see articles about other continents.
Below is a list of the countries that do not currently have official coverage where Street View vehicles are currently driving, where Street View is officially planned, or have reported by media to be driving.
Cyprus (public streets)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (public streets)
Kosovo (public streets)
Georgia (public streets)Street View has been controversial in different countries for various reasons.
In September 2010, theCzech Republic banned any further capturing of Street View images. This occurred after more than half a year of unsuccessful negotiation between the Czech Republic and Google.[59][60] However, on June 24, 2011, the cars started driving again, with the camera holder lowered by 30 cm (12 in) for privacy reasons.[61]
In November 2010, a British watchdog group said that Google broke the law by obtaining personal data from people. The British government said the company would not be fined for the breach.[62]
In March 2011, legal action against Google Street View inGermany resulted in court ruling that the project is legal;[63] however, Google later decided not to expand or update existing coverage of Germany by the service.[64]
In April 2011, a temporary ban on Google Street View data collecting inAustria was lifted, after being imposed by national data protection agency in May 2010. Google announced it was satisfied with the decision, but also stated that it had no plans to offer Google Street View coverage in Austria in the foreseeable future.[65] In July 2018 general street coverage was introduced in Austria.
In April 2013 Google was fined €145,000 for illegally recording information from unsecured wireless networks in Germany.[66]
There is some criticism of privacy concerns as well.[67]
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