Google has launched its Street View service in the UK.
On Thursday, the software giant announced that Google Maps now allows users to navigate some UK city streets, using photographs taken at a street-level viewpoint. It has been rolling out its Street View service gradually in various countries, starting with the US, since May 2007. Camera-equipped cars began photographing British streets in the summer of 2008.
"Street View has been hugely popular with our users in Europe and worldwide, and we're thrilled it's now available in the UK for so many great cities, enabling users to see street-level panoramas of major city roads and look up and print out useful driving directions," Ed Parsons, Google UK's geospatial technologist, said in a statement.
The full list of UK cities covered by the service includes: London, Edinburgh, Leeds, Bradford, Cambridge, Cardiff, Belfast, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Bristol, Coventry, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Swansea, York, Newcastle, Dundee, Southampton, Norwich and S****horpe. The scope of Street View is limited in some cities, a spokesperson for Google said.
London's mayor, Boris Johnson, said in the Google statement that Street View was "a hugely practical tool if you're off to an area of the city you've never been to before or are on the hunt for a new home".
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