Original title: There were no ancients before! Google Street View reaches new heights: covering 98% of surface habitats

Recently, Google announced that Google Street View (Google Street View) of Google Earth (Google Earth) has photographed roads of more than 16.09 million kilometers. This distance is equivalent to circling the Earth 400 times. At the same time, it has also taken high-definition satellite images of more than 3,600 square miles (about 9323 square kilometers), covering 98% of the Earth's inhabited surface environment.

Since its launch in 2007, Google Street View has expanded rapidly

Google also explained that they also use photogrammetry to collect detailed map data through photographs without going to the site, including details of areas such as roads, buildings, rivers, etc., and the distance between objects.

Photogrammetry first originated in the mid-19th century, but Google's unrivaled amount of data (billions of images) has taken this method to the extreme, and Google has improved this method in many ways over the past 10 years, making it possible to make maps as accurate as meters from various sources.

Google Street View (Google Street View) is a special service of Google Maps. It is taken by a dedicated street view vehicle, then the 360-degree live view photos are placed on Google Maps for users to use.

On May 30, 2007, Google officially launched the Street View feature, which allows you to browse street views in cities such as San Francisco and New York in the US. The scope has been extended to 135 cities in 9 countries including the United States, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Although this service makes the tedious work of map reading simple and fun, it has also sparked a lot of controversy. The debate mainly revolves around whether Street View maps infringe on privacy. Previously, Google was investigated by the South Korean police for this.