On Wednesday morning, the search engine giant’s Street View imaging service went live in Canada, giving users the chance to zoom into street level images of Canadian cities using Google Maps.
The service launched overnight in 11 Canadian cities: Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler, Ottawa Kitchener and Waterloo.
Google calls it the "last zoom layer on the map," and now it’s available to Canadians.
On Wednesday morning, the search engine giant’s Street View imaging service went live in Canada, giving users the chance to zoom into street level images of Canadian cities using Google Maps.
The service — which has raised privacy concerns in other countries — allows users to zoom in to street level in Google Maps, offering a near seamless view of the ground floor of Canada’s urban centres.
The service launched overnight in 11 Canadian cities: Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Ottawa, Kitchener and Waterloo and in Vancouver, Squamish and Whistler in anticipation of the Olympics.
The images were captured by Google earlier this year by special cars outfitted with dozens of cameras which roamed Canadian roads taking panoramic photos which were then stitched together to create an immersive, near-seamless experience.
Sightings of Google’s Street View cars were a common site on Canadian streets this summer, with many people trying to find their way into the path of the cameras, hoping to be immortalized on the service.
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