Google Street View: 50 countries are now online

This is the biggest update of Google Street View by the Mountain View company with the addition of more than 550 000 km of roads and streets, nearly 350,000 miles of roads across 14 countries that were added during this last update. And since the launch of Google Street View in five U.S. cities in 2007 the number of kilometers views added is phenomenal.

Today with Street View, you might as well take a train through the Swiss Alps, an explorer in Antarctica, visiting countries such as Poland and Romania and with this update discover Hungary and Lesotho.

Google explains on his blog that "Now you can take a virtual walk through the historic center of Budapest, the Danube (the river that carves the city into two), see the building of the Hungarian Parliament and the famous Bridge chains. "

In addition with this addition, the coverage of existing roads and streets in France, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore and Thailand has been refreshed and expanded. For example, in France it is now you can virtually walk in the pedestrian town center of Blois.

Even if it is criticized in many countries, the data protection authority in Hamburg, Germany has fined Google 145,000 euros fine for private data collected for Street View recently, there remains a great tool for exploring distant lands or to simply prepare your holidays.

Google and concluded: "From Antarctica to Australia, South Korea to South Africa, the snowy peaks of Mount Everest to the Great Barrier Reef, you can virtually visit more than 8 million kilometers shooting around the world without ever leaving your home. "