As of: February 4, 2024, 11:25 a.m
By: Josef Ametsbichler
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Virtual spider web: The streets that can be explored in the district using Google Street View are highlighted in blue.
There is a strange gap in the image material in the forest.
© Google Maps
The online map service Google Maps has recently started offering the opportunity to virtually explore almost the entire district.
The material for “Street View” has been expanded – and has a curious gap.
Maybe it's due to a ghost.
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- At first it was mainly larger towns and main roads, now residential areas and small hamlets in the Ebersberg district are also covered by the Google “Street View” service.
The offer via the map portal Google Maps allows you to virtually drive on public roads - and take a look or two over the garden fence.
With the latest update, curious people have the opportunity to roam the region comfortably from their cell phone or laptop screen, whether through the Oberpframmern industrial area, the Vaterstetten villa district or a little way into the Schwabener Moos.
And some people will recognize themselves, their car or their place of residence - the Google car photographs everything that comes in front of its lens.
It still worked: The Google camera image of the Hubertus Chapel in the Ebersberger Forest.
Shortly afterwards, recording temporarily stops.
© Google Maps
The lion's share of the new recordings apparently come from the summer of 2023. The recording vehicle drove past the editorial office of the Ebersberger Zeitung on Eichthalstrasse on August 7, 2023, as the headlines on the newspaper box that were photographed reveal.
Other recordings come from the previous two years.
Privacy concerns are triggering sharp legal headwinds
For many years, the district, like most of Germany, was a blank spot on the otherwise well-photographed street view world.
Privacy concerns had triggered such strong, sometimes legal, headwinds in this country that the company initially withdrew the digitization project.
Last summer the restart took place (we reported).
A Google spokeswoman told EZ at the time: “When we think about where we start taking photos, we usually go to places where Street View is useful for most people.
We often start in the city center to capture popular downtown areas and then move outward.
It may be that we don't capture every street.” Now the image material seems to be becoming increasingly more complete.
The Google car also drove past the editorial office of the Ebersberger Zeitung - on August 7th last year, the newspaper boxes reveal it.
© Google Maps
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Anyone who finds themselves or their property shown on Google Street View must be prepared for the images to be visible online for years.
The internet company legally invokes the so-called street image freedom: This essentially states that you can photograph and publish what can be seen in public places.
As a concession to data protection, faces and license plates are automatically obscured by Google.
There are still gaps in the virtual road network
There are still gaps in the virtual street network that Google Street View has woven through the Ebersberg district, mostly streets that are public but rather out of the way.
What is particularly noticeable is an approximately 750 meter long grayed out section in the middle of the Ebersberger Forest, on the state road 2080 from Schwaberwegen to Ebersberg, which was otherwise photographed in August 2023.
While you can otherwise use the arrow keys on the computer to curve around the area like in a computer game, the journey ends abruptly - even though the road simply continues straight ahead.
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter.)
And just behind the Hubertus Chapel, which is said to be haunted by a ghost - the White Woman from the Ebersberg Forest.
Legend has it that it's actually more haunted at night, but perhaps the mystical aura of the place is enough for a camera car to catch a technical hiccup.
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