Happy new year everyone! In this article, we will look at what 2024 left behind and what we can look forward to in 2025 in Street View. We will go over the most important updates and news month by month.
January
โข ๐ณ๐ฆ Following multiple spottings in the capital of Windhoek, a Street View truck in Namibia is spotted in Lรผderitz, 700km away from Windhoek [Click for photo]
February
โข ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina is added to the official Street View driving list, confirming coverage taken between April and November of 2024 [Click for photo]
โข ๐ท๐ผ Large coverage updates in Rwanda, including previously uncovered provinces [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฎ๐ฉ New island in the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฒ๐พ Resumed updates in Malaysia after 2 years: coverage from 2021, 2022 and 2023 released [Click for photo]
March
โข ๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan receives its first coverage ever without prior announcements or spottings [Click for photo]
โข ๐ช๐จ Gen 4 Street View truck with a Trekker is spotted in Quito, the capital of Ecuador [Click for photo]
โข ๐ด๐ฒ The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology of Oman announces Google Street View coverage [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฆ๐ช United Arab Emirates receives its first Gen 4 car coverage and expands on the existing pickup Trekker coverage [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฆ๐บ King Island and Flinders Island are scheduled to be covered for the first time ever
โข ๐ธ๐น Sรฃo Tomรฉ & Prรญncipe receives its first road coverage ever, taken by the bad quality camera (colloquially known as shitcam) [Click for photo]
April
โข ๐ฒ๐น Malta receives its first Gen 4 coverage ever, taken in July and August of 2022 [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon receives its first road coverage ever, taken by the bad quality camera between 2021 and 2023 [Click for photo]
โข ๐ง๐ฆ Street View cars are spotted being transported in Ilidลพa, close to the capital of Sarajevo [Click for photo]
โข ๐ธ๐ป Google opens their offices in El Salvador and announces Street View coverage of the country
May
โข ๐ฒ๐ณ Mongolia receives its first Gen 4 coverage ever, taken by Trekker on a pickup in Ulaanbaatar and Tรถv province between August and October 2023 [Click for photo]
โข ๐จ๐ท Street View truck is spotted near San Josรฉ, the capital of Costa Rica [Click for photo]
โข Smallcam cars are spotted in ๐บ๐ธ New York City and on ๐ฏ๐ต Hokkaido [Click for photos]
โข ๐ฆ๐บ King Island receives its first coverage ever [Click for photo]
June
โข ๐ณ๐ต Street View car is spotted in Nepal, carrying the bad quality camera [Click for photo]
โข ๐ช๐จ Gen 4 Trekker trucks are spotted driving in Ecuador [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฒ๐ณ Ministry of Road and Transport Development announces coverage updates in western Mongolia [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฐ๐ฟ First Street View truck in Kazakhstan is spotted in Almaty [Click for photo]
โข Trekker spottings all around the world, including airports [Click for photo]
July
โข ๐ต๐พ A Street View truck is spotted in Asunciรณn, the capital of Paraguay [Click for photo]
โข ๐ซ๐ด Street View truck with a Gen 4 Trekker camera is spotted in Leirvik in the Faroe Islands [Click for photo]
โข ๐ธ๐ฒ Google updates Street View in San Marino after 14 years with Gen 4 coverage [Click for photo]
โข ๐ท๐ธ Press release announces new coverage in Serbia for the first time since 2015
โข ๐ฑ๐ฎ Liechtenstein is officially added to the official driving list, marking its first coverage ever [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฌ๐ง Smallcam cars are spotted in the United Kingdom [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฎ๐ณ The union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands gets its first coverage ever, taken in July of 2024 [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฒ๐ณ Trekkers from October of 2023 have been released in Mongolia [Click for photo]
August
โข ๐ฎ๐ธ Gen 4 pickup truck with a Trekker is spotted in Iceland, marking its first Gen 4 coverage ever [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฒ๐ณ Western part of Mongolia receives its first Gen 4 coverage ever [Click for photo]
โข Street View job offers in ๐ท๐ธ Serbia, ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania and ๐ฒ๐พ Sarawak are posted [Click for photo]
โข ๐จ๐พ Driving job offer is posted for Cyprus [Click for photo]
โข ๐น๐ท Google publishes first pickup coverage in Turkey, taken between October 2023 and July of 2024 [Click for photo]
โข ๐จ๐ด Colombian department of Vichada receives its first coverage ever [Click for photo]
โข ๐ณ๐ฑ Smallcam car is spotted in the Netherlands [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฆ๐บ Flinders Island receives its first coverage ever [Click for photo]
September
โข ๐ฎ๐ธ Gen 4 coverage taken between July and August of 2024 is released in Iceland, replacing imagery from 2013 [Click for photo]
โข ๐ช๐จ Ecuador receives its first Gen 4 coverage ever, taken between February and August of 2024 by a pickup, replacing bad quality imagery [Click for photo]
โข ๐ท๐ธ Gen 4 Trekker truck is spotted in Kraljevo, Serbia [Click for photo]
โข Google confirms new and updated coverage in countries such as ๐บ๐พ Uruguay, ๐จ๐ท Costa Rica, ๐ต๐พ Paraguay, ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland and many more (Original article: vstreets.to/24rwgu)
โข ๐ง๐ด Driving job offer for Bolivia is posted [Click for photo]
October
โข ๐ด๐ฒ Oman receives its first coverage ever, taken between February and September of 2024 by a pickup, including multiple islands and an exclave [Click for photo]
โข ๐ซ๐ด Faroe Islands receive their first Gen 4 coverage ever, taken by a pickup between June and July of 2024 [Click for photo]
โข ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland receives its first update since 2021, replacing old Gen 3 imagery in several regions [Click for photo]
โข First smallcam coverage is released, also in ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland, following the coverage update [Click for photos]
โข ๐ฌ๐ญ Google confirms updated coverage in Ghana, among other countries [Click for photo]
โข ๐ฑ๐ฎ Liechtenstein gets its first coverage ever, taken in August of 2024 [Click for photo]
November
โข ๐ฎ๐ณ Indian union territory of Lakshadweep gets its first coverage ever, taken in October of 2024 [Click for photo]
December
โข ๐ฎ๐ณ Smallcam car is spotted in India, confirming bad quality coverage will be eventually replaced [Click for photo]
โข ๐ต๐ท Puerto Rico receives its first Gen 4 coverage ever, taken by smallcam and released within 5 days [Click for photos]
โข ๐ฒ๐พ First ever Gen 4 coverage on Malaysian Borneo is released in the region of Sarawak, updating coverage from 5 years ago [Click for photo]
โข ๐จ๐พ Google confirms Street View in Cyprus [Click for photo]
โข Coverage updates confirmed for ๐ต๐ท Puerto Rico and ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania [Click for photos]
โข Trekker imagery collected during the summer is published
What to look out for in 2025?
First coverage (confirmed)
- ๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina
- ๐ณ๐ฆ Namibia
- ๐ณ๐ต Nepal
- ๐ต๐พ Paraguay
- ๐จ๐พ Cyprus
- ๐จ๐ท Costa Rica
- ๐ธ๐ป El Salvador
Updated coverage
- ๐ฎ๐ณ India (smallcam)
- ๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia (Sabah)
- ๐บ๐พ Uruguay
- ๐ง๐ด Bolivia
- ๐ฌ๐ญ Ghana
- ๐ท๐ธ Serbia
- ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania
- ๐ฉ๐ช Germany
What we’re hoping (coping) for
- ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam
- ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea
- ๐ง๐ณ Brunei
Our community, wrapped
Together, you’ve managed to report more than 10,000 updates and post over 2,500 Google car spottings.
In 2023, you reported more than 7,000 updates and posted over 1,500 spottings. Since then, the community has grown by over 2,000 members on Discord and more than 1,900 followers on Twitter.
Most reactions of the same emoji on an announcement:
- ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฒ Oman (first coverage): 353 reactions
- ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan (first coverage): 294 reactions
- ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฒ San Marino (Gen 4 release): 278 reactions
- 4. ๐ฎ๐ณ India (smallcam spotting): 277 reactions [within 3.5 days]
- 5. ๐ต๐ท Puerto Rico (smallcam release): 266 reactions [within 12.5 days]
Thanks to everyone who contributed – community is what builds VirtualStreets.
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