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Users will be able to access this information by tapping the ‘Layers’ button at the top right and selecting the ‘Air Quality’ option.ĭaniel said Google would publish Street View’s Application programming Interface to local partners. The US-based technology behemoth has also collaborated with the Central Pollution Control Board to make authoritative air quality information available on Google Maps. It will also provide information on road closures and incidents on Google Maps across eight cities, including Delhi, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Gurugram, Bengaluru, and Agra, to help people avoid congestion zones. Google Maps will also show information on speed limits shared by traffic authorities, starting with Bengaluru and Chandigarh.

We plan to expand this to 50 cities by the end of this year.” “They (the partners) have covered 150,000 kilometres in India.

“This is the first time in the world that Google Street View is being brought to life completely by local partners,” Miriam Daniel, vice president - maps experiences, Google, told ET. The feature, available under Google Maps, is expected to help real estate companies and travel firms as well as aid in better navigation for users. The service has gone live in Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Pune, Nashik, Vadodara, Ahmednagar, and Amritsar. Google, which typically collects street-level images through cars and bikes fitted with cameras, is offering the service in partnership with Tech Mahindra and Genesys International. This comes after it announced plans to capture street-level images in 2011 but had to stop the process in 2016 after the government restricted it citing security issues. The internet search leader on Wednesday launched the feature – already available in more than 100 countries - across 10 cities in India, enabling users to get a 360-degree view of any iconic destination, restaurant or street. If you could take a “virtual walk” through New York’s famed Central Park sitting in Delhi earlier, now you can be in New York but stroll virtually in Delhi’s Lodhi Gardens as well, thanks to Google’s Street View.