Dear someone who loves Street View. It is not fair to call a place you have never seen "piddly" - just be a bit respectful. I am fond of street view too, but as long as the new technologies are evolving much too fast for this world's population and secondly, as long as such ideas are born in a country that behaves irresponsible by ignoring the impact on people's privacy (or - shown most recently - the impact on the world's financial stability) countries in Europe will continue to protect their law. Let me put it this way (unrespectfully): Please spend a minute to reflect that in this part of the world the smallest towns have probably more to show than any place in the US since the history is much older. By the way, Google today confirmed to forego the filming across the whole northern area of Germany in which 2 million people live (as many as in Hamburg city!).