Just reading the article and I wonder if this guy even did any research. Google does not do any data gathering for their maps or for streetview. They use third party companies for the content like navteq which actually provides the data to the majority of the GPS with system. And i think navteq outsources streetview to other companies. One of them is teleatlas.com. I saw the truck once and was hoping to see my car on the map but it never made it.
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html
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Just reading the article and I wonder if this guy even did any research. Google does not do any data gathering for their maps or for streetview. They use third party companies for the content like navteq which actually provides the data to the majority of the GPS with system. And i think navteq outsources streetview to other companies. One of them is teleatlas.com. I saw the truck once and was hoping to see my car on the map but it never made it. http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html