Google Street View in 2026
3 hours ago
- #Geospatial Analysis
- #Data Processing
- #Google Street View
- Dataset documenting Google's global Street View coverage with year and month of last capture.
- Conversion of dataset into Parquet format for geospatial analysis.
- Workstation specifications: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU, 96 GB DDR5 RAM, 4 TB NVMe M.2 SSD.
- Running Ubuntu 24 LTS via Microsoft's Ubuntu for Windows on Windows 11 Pro.
- Use of DuckDB v1.4.3 with H3, JSON, Lindel, Parquet, and Spatial extensions.
- Downloading 131 JSON files (647 MB uncompressed) from geo.emily.bz.
- Creation of a DuckDB table and import of JSON data into it.
- Export of the table as a spatially-sorted, ZStandard-compressed Parquet file (85 MB, 7,163,407 rows).
- Missing data for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Namibia, Paraguay, and Vietnam.
- Point counts by year, showing coverage from 2003 to 2025.
- Visualization of Street View coverage across Europe, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Latin America.