New Marking Method

Since Google Street View has so much coverage now, they have removed the camera icons and replaced them with a little picture of Pegman. Although this is good for de-cluttering Google Maps, it's bad for counting how much imagery is currently available. So a new way must now be devised to count the data.

Here is the new way the blog will be arranging it: First the continent, then the country, then the divisions of the country.

Commonwealth of Australia: 8 divisions

French Republic: 21 divisions

Italian Republic: 20 divisions

Japan: 47 divisions

New Zealand: 16 divisions

Kingdom of Spain: 17 divisions

United States of America: 51 divisions

When every major street (on Google Maps, shown in yellow or orange at zoom level 6 [7 in Japan]) in a division is covered, then the division is counted in green as fully covered. If most of them are covered, then the divison is counted in indigo as mostly covered. If less than half of them are covered, then the divison is counted in red as partly covered. If none are covered, then the division is not counted at all.

This new method will be used on this blog's sidebar.

Predictions Updated

Along with each of my math-based predictions is an alternate set. The predictions on the right sidebar have been updated to the alternate set, although there will probably be more than 7 locations.

It usually takes Google an average of four days per Street View location.

More Street View Cities Anyday Now

As you can see, the prediction on the right falls on today, and there aren't any new Street View cities yet. What happened with the previous prediction, March 26, is that more Street View cities came out the day after, so the prediction was quite close.

If things go properly, you should expect more Street View as soon as tomorrow!

Next Street View Predictions

My last prediction for Street View was March 27, with 9 new cities; that's off by one day, three cities, and a national park. I bet no one saw that coming; nice surprise, Google!

Here is the next set of predictions:

May 5, 2008 (Monday)

1. Atlanta, GA
2. Baltimore, MD
3. Charlotte, NC
4. Columbus, OH
5. El Paso, TX
6. Jacksonville, FL
7. Lexington, KY
8. Memphis, TN
9. Oklahoma City, OK
10. Plantation, FL
11. Seattle, WA
12. Springfield, MO
13. Yellowstone National Park

These predictions are based on previous populations of locations and dates of addition.