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Title: Google has imaged 98% of the inhabited Earth
Post by: Redaktion on December 16, 2019, 01:45:12
Google announced on Friday that it has imaged over 10 million miles of roads and paths in Street View. Additionally, Google Earth has now imaged over 36 square miles of the earth's surface, which covers 98% of the inhabited world.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-has-imaged-98-of-the-inhabited-Earth.447270.0.html
Title: Re: Google has imaged 98% of the inhabited Earth
Post by: Eeic on December 16, 2019, 12:25:09
"Google Earth has now imaged over 36 square miles of the earth's surface, which covers 98% of the inhabited world."

The world just keeps on getting smaller.
Title: Re: Google has imaged 98% of the inhabited Earth
Post by: M2018 on December 16, 2019, 14:19:15
@ Eeic
Yeah, that is that crappy globalization  :D
Title: Re: Google has imaged 98% of the inhabited Earth
Post by: Sam Medley on December 17, 2019, 05:31:08
It's a small world after all.  ;)
Article has been updated. Thank you!
Title: Re: Google has imaged 98% of the inhabited Earth
Post by: xpclient on December 17, 2019, 14:56:17
98% of human*-inhabited earth ? Surely not polar bears in Antarctica, that's National Geographic's job  ;D
Title: Re: Google has imaged 98% of the inhabited Earth
Post by: Sam Medley on December 18, 2019, 05:28:50
@xpclient:
It'd be hard to map polar bears in Antarctica considering polar bears are only in the northern Arctic ;)
Google's got its eye on all those penguins, though.