Google Street View -- those panorama photos part of Google Maps -- has now been released for France, as second country in the world after the US. However, the pics taken are just from the Tour de France route, as Luka from the French Zorgloob blog explains. The faces of people are blurred as they are in other Street View locations nowadays, Luka explains.
In the meantime, Google"s cars continue to drive around other places in Europe -- like in Germany -- so we have reason to expect more Street View countri ...
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