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Wednesday 4 August 2021
Google is lending its Google Trekker to Fáilte Ireland (nice of them…).
The vehicles will collect data to help improve Apple Maps, and could result in it launching its own version of Google Street View.
The company’s street view service now allows you to tour the Liwa desert, one of the largest oases.
The images were captured and uploaded onto Google Street View in Chile.
The images were captured and uploaded onto Google Street View in Chile.
… and accidentally sparked a police investigation.
*Travel as far back as 2007, that is.
Anyone with an Android phone or Digital SLR camera can upload their own Street View images onto Google Maps.
You’d want to be careful when those sneaky camera cars are around.
There’s no such thing as privacy anymore…
All 2,000 of the company’s Dublin staff took to the streets to pose and wave for the Street View car.
Google’s staff have been busy pedalling all over the world to capture some well known tourist attractions.
Browse three continents before lunch.
The service will offer users panoramic view of Irish towns, cities and rural areas.
Google Street View gives unique privacy controls to German users after months of controversy.
LAST WEEK, THE Oireachtas budgetary oversight committee recommended that the Government examine the introduction of congestion charges to help pay for the cost of climate change.
In 2003, London introduced a £5 levy for driving into a relatively small area of central London between 7am and 6.30pm on weekdays, with exemptions for taxis, emergency vehicles and people living inside the zone.
Aside from some supposedly temporary pandemic tightening, the scheme remains the same in its essentials today and is widely hailed as a success.
Pete Lunn, head of the Behavioural Research Unit at the Economic and Social Research Institute, said it is “incontrovertible” that these charges are an effective way to reduce congestion.
So today we’re asking: Should Ireland bring in congestion charges?
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