Google Street View

More than 25 Bulgarian cities will have updated images on Google Maps

Tours start this week

Google celebrated on May 24 15 years since it kicked off its mammoth and hugely controversial effort to photograph streets in minute detail across the globe.

The panoramic images of Google Street View have slipped into daily life for millions but during its early years, it attracted countless court cases and howls of anguish from privacy campaigners.

The Google Street View cars are coming back to Romania and they will reach, in the coming months, in over a hundred localities, to update the Street View images of cities, roads and highways on Google Maps, the technology company informed in a press release on Thursday.

The changing infrastructure and outlook of Bulgaria will be reflected in the Google Maps application. Google cars will be circumnavigating the streets and roads of Bulgaria by the end of the summer to capture the changes, this time including footage taken by pedestrians, the so-called trackers, in the app, the company said.

VTM Nieuws has reported on the story. The Kleine Brogel Air Base, where the F-16s are based, is currently still visible, Brussels Times wrires.

Most of us have probably seen those “people are awesome” videos circulating on the web, where intrepid daredevils showcase their skills in far off places from around the globe. Imagine being on the peak of the Olympian gods of ancient Greece! Well, let’s be honest, not all of us are cut out for those types of outdoors activities.

For its next technological trick, Google will show you what it's like to zip through trees in the Amazon jungle.