There were some indications that Streetview is comming to Europe. Streetview cars were seen in Milan, Amstadam, Rome, Paris and now Barcelona.
Which city will be the next? I’m waiting for Vienna 
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Google has recently updated their StreetView data for Manhatten. Beside some improvements in image quality, Google has implemented automatic face-blurring technology. Form the screenshot you can see that it works really nice. It blurs the faces, but doesn’t detract too much from the imagery. Here is the quote form the official Australian Google Blog:
At Google, we take our users’ privacy very seriously. Street View only contains imagery that anyone can already see walking down a public street and we’ve always had in place image removal tools. In addition, today, on the Google LatLong blog, we have just announced the first public test of our new face-blurring technology on the busy streets of Manhattan. This effort has been a year in the making - and we will continue to work hard to improve it as we roll it out for our existing and future imagery. Here’s an example from the bustling streets of Manhattan:
In Australia (and New Zealand), Street View will also feature face-blurring, as well as image removal tools.
This new technology indicates that Google is working on technologies to fullfill the legal requirements to introduce StreetView in Europe as well. I think StreetView Europe is comming soon…
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Mozilla FireFox is an awsome Internet browser. With the version 3 the developers have enhanced the usability of the software once more. Therefore it is not surprising that the maket share is rising according to XiTi.
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In Austria there is makret share of about 32%. I think after the official release of version 3 there will be an further boost in the maket share.
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Following pictures appeared recently on the internet, indicated that street view cars are en-route throughout Europe. This picture was made in Milan today:
Based on expericenes it can be calculated that they will be online in the beginning of 2009. I’m interested in seeing which city will be the first one in Europe with streetview. I think the legal issues (about garble licence plates and faces), is little bit different form country to country, and an important factor for introducing street view in Europe. Normally Zurich should be one of the first cities with Street view.
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There is an interessting Article about the current status of GIS in Europa. There the trend of GIS into mainstream markets are discussed. Euproean companies playing only inferior standing.
GIS, from a geoinformation perspective’ (availability of data sets) as well as from a methods, techniques and software technology perspective, certainly is a globalized phenomenon. The GIS industry is mainly based on some global players, with regional differences in societal frameworks, and thus policies and operational practice, limited to a few areas like cadastre or approval of permits.
Another citeation:
There seems to be a decreasing market share of European software technologies, even more so in the hardware sector.
Other topics in this article are INSPIRE, GALILEO and GMES. You can find the full article unter: http://www.zgis.at/team/strobl/GISEurope_GISDevJan08.pdf
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