Street View is finally here!

Street View is finally here! It was released on  May 15th. All panorama photos were taken last summer.



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I was worried that there will be no Old Town panoramas, but it seems that almost all of Old Town is now in  Google Street View. Only few places are absent : Kohtuotsa platform, Patkuli platform/stairs and Pikk jalg street.

There are also some strange blank spots on Järvevana street.

Street View update

As it turns out, panoramas taken last October were just a test. Starting from June 19th, Regio is taking Street View images in Tallinn and other parts of Estonia.

There are several photos of Google cars on Delfi ( link) and Postimees ( link):

On Pae street ( Location on Google Maps)


5th Generation camera


In other news, Regio opened a non Street View panorama website 360.tallinn.ee.

Panoramas were created by panographer and web developer Andrei Bodrov (his 360cities account).

I'm back!

I'm back. Still no image update for Tallinn and there is no new information about Street View. But there is some old information that I haven't mentioned:

• Street View in Estonia is organised by Regio
  (Link to Street View page)
  
  
• The project started on 28 October 2010
  
  
• Delfi has some photos of Street View car near Tallinn
  (other photos here)
  
  
  
  
• Regio uses 4th Generation cameras
  
  
  
  
• Surprisingly my last blog post became very popular. It is on the 1st page for the search with terms "Tallinn street view"

Google Street View is coming to Tallinn

According to Delfi and some other media (Link 1, Link 2, Link 3), Google cars have been spotted on a parking lot near Peterburi tee.



If everything goes fine, Tallinn should get Street View somewhere between 2011 and 2012. I have to say I am a bit surprised that they are starting to take panoramas now and not in the summer. I really hope that they could use Street View bikes in the Old Town.

P.S. Riga already has a non-Google Street View - www.1188.lv