and Google today also announced on its LatLong blog that it is offering a “special preview” of some “fascinating German places” and landmarks. Germany has very strict privacy laws ...

Immersive View for places lets you view landmarks and ... France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, and the US. Google is also surfacing HOV lanes in the US (over ...

One of the countries to shun the service early on was Germany, where privacy outcries and lawsuits led to Google halt the Street View rollout in 2011 after only covering about 20 big cities ...

Beyond that, Google Maps Immersive View is also rolling out to over “500 iconic landmarks” around the world including Prague Castle, Sydney Harbour Bridge, and Faneuil Hall in Boston.

Following competition objections raised on Google in Germany this summer over bundling of services including Google Maps via its Android-based in-car infotainment system software, known as Google ...