Google Street View

“when you actually use street view it generally does absolutely not look like the images were taken from an excessive height”

“The amount of broken stuff and lack of support, when I'm literally giving them free work, is insane.”

“exploring an area virtually through street view is great for in-context learning”

“one of the most incredible engineering work produced by humans”

“The Philippines is great for streetview, wikipedia, random internet rabbit holes.”

“one of the most fantastic things available on the internet”

“the ux has always been lacking”

“it still has the same bugs people have been complaining about for years”

“Filled with ads and bugs, some major bugs have been there for 10+ years.”

“Google has managed to give us marvellous, paramount free resources (Google Street, Google Museum...)”

“jumps in time (cause the google car does not always continuously scan) and the image density is just too low”

“it's pure data harvesting”

“captured boatloads of wifi data with their wardriving vehicles”

“successfully sued Google to remove itself from street view because it was private property and a privacy violation”

“Google Maps Street View really helps me understand exactly where I’ll be going.”

“It brings humanity closer together.”

“Services like Street View should have distance-based friction to preserve privacy.”

“I think Google Street View is better than the Apple variant”

“Yes but the scope limits coverage.”

“it would not open in the browser and kept trying to redirect me to the app store”

“At least in Germany still a quite controversial topic.”

“is a phenomenal human achivement”

“Google Street View and YouTube are full of irreplaceable information.”

“Now it feels like a digital relic.”

“Large sections of streets I look at on Google street view are blurred now which has started to seriously limit it's use for me.”

“Imagine being able to look at 100 years of street view history, or several hundred, at some point in the future.”

“Current street view works well enough.”

“Street View is the greatest project in human historiography”

“A cool product demo, but not very useful in practice.”

“People rarely use the Street View feature because it's difficult to access, and difficult to understand spatially.”

“it's also probably Google's creepiest product”

“Depending on where you live, that happened about 10 years ago.”

“Streetview is such an incredible product - one of the few digital products that still manages to bring me joy every day.”

“Essentially zero improvement in user experience for more than a decade, in a time of incredible advancements in computer vision.”

“The effect is unvelievably smooth compared to what Google maps have”

“I am drastically less likely to get lost”

“never have I felt like street view was even close to actually being there”

“Of course compared to Google Street view there is no comparison on a world wide basis”

“Hard to overstate how valuable all that street view coverage is on the Google side.”

“acquiring the panoramas as there isn't an official API”