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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 was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
While Canada, like other jurisdictions, has raised the issue of privacy concerns regarding Google Street View, the presence of Google cameras in one Canadian city in March 2009 gave rise to a different complaint. Les MacPherson, a columnist with the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, complained in a March 28, 2009, column that the timing of the imaging ...
In March 2008, Google removed Street View and 360° images of military bases per the Pentagon's request. [10] To protect the privacy and anonymity of individuals, Google selectively blurred photographs containing car license number plates and faces in Google Street View. Users may request further blurring of images that feature them, their ...
Google Street View covers most regencies and cities in Sumatra (except most of Aceh ), Java, Nusa Tenggara Islands, Borneo, Sulawesi, and North Maluku (includes Ternate, Tidore, and parts of Halmahera ). There is currently no official coverage in Maluku (province) and the Papua region, if it exists, then all of them are unofficial.
Caine Road is a road running through Mid-Levels, Hong Kong. It connects Bonham Road to the west (at the junction with Hospital Road and Seymour Road), and Arbuthnot Road, Glenealy and Upper Albert Road to the east. The road is named after William Caine, [1] a Colonial Secretary, and an acting Governor of Hong Kong between May and September 1859.
Hong Kong Tramways香港電車. Hong Kong Tramways ( HKT) is a 3 ft 6 in ( 1,067 mm) narrow-gauge tram [ 3] system in Hong Kong. Owned and operated by RATP Dev, the tramway runs on Hong Kong Island between Kennedy Town and Shau Kei Wan, with a branch circulating through Happy Valley . Hong Kong's tram system is one of the earliest forms of ...
That same year, Google admitted its Street View cars inadvertently collected personal data such as email addresses and passwords from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks. In 2018, ...
Tsing Ma Bridge is a bridge in Hong Kong. It is the world's 16th-longest span suspension bridge, and was the second longest at the time of its completion. [3] The bridge was named after the two islands it connects, namely Tsing Yi and Ma Wan. It has two decks and carries both road and rail traffic, which also makes it the largest suspension ...