Google ads 30 Dutch cities to Streetview

Tue 10 November 2009 09:35, Editors

Google Streetview is slowly but surely capturing all of Europe. In the Netherlands the service was launched in March with 'only' big cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Groningen. Now they've added over 30 cities and surrounding areas.

Google has paid extra attention to the 'special places', the historical ones, like the Binnenhof, where the Dutch Parliament is seated, and Kinderdijk, where windmills are placed. These two places are also the first ones shot by the Streetview Trike.

There are only a few images shot by the Streetview Trike available. Google is working on getting the other ones in there too, but hasn't set a date for that yet.

In their press release Google pays extra attention to the privacy issues. At the launch of the Dutch Streetview in March there was lots of rumor about faces of people showing up in Streetview. Google stresses it has done extra work to blur the pictures and that everyone can request for images to be taken down from Streetview.

Cities now available in Holland:

Almere
Alphen aan den Rijn
Amersfoort
Amstelveen *
Amsterdam **
Apeldoorn
Arnhem
Barendrecht *
Bergen op Zoom
Beverwijk
Breda
Delft
Den Bosch
Den Haag
Diemen*
Dordrecht
Edam *
Eindhoven
Groningen **
Haarlem
Hilversum
Hoogvliet *
IJmuiden
Koog aan de Zaan *
Leeuwaarden
Leiden
Lelystad
Nijmegen
Oss
Ouder-Amstel *
Purmerend
Rotterdam **
Smallingerland
Sneek
Spijkenisse *
Tilburg
Utrecht
Velsen
Venlo
Volendam *
Wassenaar
Weesp *
Zaanstad **
Zoetermeer

* already in March
** already in March but new images added

If you navigate through you will however find many more towns than mentioned above.

Google also gave away some interesting or funny facts about the 'making of' Streetview Netherlands. Turns out the biggest problem in the Netherlands was… the weather...

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