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To celebrate 15 years of Street View, Google shares what South Africans looked at

Today Google is celebrating a milestone for one of its key features in Maps – Street View.

The feature is now 15 years old and in order to celebrate this, Google has shared some local insight into what places and buildings South Africans have been using Street View to look at over the past year.

“In the 15 years since its launch, Google Street View has come a long way. From going under water to capture the Great Barrier Reef in 2012, being available in VR in 2015, to exploring the ‘Top of the World’ in Canada in 2017, Street View has achieved incredible milestones,” highlights Google in a press release sent to Hypertext.

“Today, it has expanded to more than 100 countries and territories around the world and captured more than 10 million miles of imagery–a distance that could circle the globe more than 400 times,” it adds.

In terms of the South African context, it is mainly the tourist hotspots that feature as points of interest that people search for and view on Street View.

To that end, it looks museums and beaches are of most interest. Regarding the latter, Google says that the penguins of Cape Town’s Boulders Beach make it the most clicked on beach in South Africa over the past year. It is followed by Hole in the Wall on the Wild Coast and Kreeftebaai in Cape Town.

As for museums, naturally the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg was the most clicked on in SA, with the Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum in Cape Town’s district of Bo-Kaap in second and  Nelson Mandela’s house on Vilakazi Street in Soweto ranking third.

The top 10s for both categories are as follows:

If you are wondering about global landmarks and points of interest, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai received the most clicks, followed by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the Taj Mahal in India.

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