Google is updating Street View images across dozens of countries

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Google is updating Street View imagery in nearly 80 countries, such as Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Japan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, and more. It’s also bringing Street View to a handful of countries where it’s never been available, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Namibia, Liechtenstein, and Paraguay.

Google says its more portable Street View camera, which launched in 2022, will help offer images of “even more places in the future.”

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An enhanced Street View image of Logstor, Denmark.

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