Note the existence of (Google) Maps App Discovery UWP, which works rather brilliantly on Windows 10, with map, traffic, satellite and street photo views, all working with Google's public APIs. So the coverage stall doesn't affect Windows 10 Mobile very much. Personally, I rarely look at street level imagery unless I'm planning a trip, in which case I'm sat at a desktop and Google Maps in my browser is the de facto standard. So Microsoft's hired camera cars never made it past the M25 then, circa 2014? (right) Zooming out further shows just a few urban areas were snapped.Įven in the USA, Microsoft's home territory, coverage is less than 50%, and patchier in most other countries (right) the Streetside view works very well where it's available, as seen here, though many people report that the photos themselves are now a few years out of date.Īs I say, despite where Google has 'gone' in this regard with Google Maps (with near worldwide 'Street View'), there's no real reason why Windows 10 Maps needs to include this functionality, so it's entirely possible that someone at Microsoft costed out adding this to Maps some years ago, came out with a figure in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and then decided that users didn't need it that badly. The roads marked in blue (which merge into a shaed area when seen at this scale) have 'Streetside' imagery available. Head into the 'layers' pop-up, as shown, right, and turn on 'Streetside' indication. Geotagged photo platform Mapillary had opened its street-level imagery to OpenStreetMap editors as far back as 2014 too.Let's start with the Greater London area. The service was later rebranded as OpenStreetCam, at Google’s request. These parameters are appended to the URL path. In the URL below, address information is specified by using URL address parameters such as addressLine, adminDistrict. A URL appends the location data to the URL path. It was basically a crowdsourced version of Google Street View, with users invited to upload imagery snapped on their mobile phones. Get the latitude and longitude coordinates based on a set of address values for any country. OpenStreetCamĪ couple of years back, a dedicated OSM team at location-services giant Telenav announced OpenStreetView (OSV), a completely “free and open street-level imagery platform” designed for OpenStreetMap. Google: Street View (launched: 2007) Microsoft: StreetSide (launched: 2009) Facebook: Mapillary (launched: 2013) Apple: Look Around (launched: 2019) Coverage Google wins hands down. In many ways, OSM is as good as Google Maps in terms of global coverage, but Google has other related smarts that set it apart - such as Google Earth and Street View, which offers users panoramic street-level imagery of roads, countryside, mountains, and more. For context, OSM doesn’t garner the same kind of attention as other mapping platforms, chiefly because it’s not designed as a consumer-focused service - it’s more of a backend that developers can use to integrate mapping services into their own applications.
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