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Google Street View Relaunched In India: Private Properties Only?

This is brilliant. Google, faced with a government in India that is against maps and against Street View, appears to have found a remarkable way of introducing Street View to the country: by enabling Street View for private properties: one such initiative announced today is the availability of India's Sula Vineyards on Street View. This was apparently launched last month, on August 16th, and allows visitors to view the vineyard, amphitheatre and the hospitality outlets, as well as the Beyond Vineyard Resport. Check the links below and and click on the little-yellow-man on the map: - The Tasting Room - Soma - Little Italy - Beyond Vineyard Resort This is interesting because, ideally, it shouldn't be in the governments hands to allow or not allow owners of private properties, especially entities like resorts, factory complexes, universities and building complexes, from adding their properties on Street View. While the utility of doing this might be limited for someone visiting a city, it is still better than nothing. What Google can do, is build a series of case studies on entities that have chosen to add their properties to Street View. There are serious privacy concerns here, but there is also significant utility, especially for tourists. Probably a really interesting situation will be if they end up partnering with a states tourism department for putting popular tourism destinations on Street View, and that will lead to a situation wherein the central government in the country might be opposed to allowing Google Street View, but…

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