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VirtualStreets.org is a news site that tracks street-level imagery services — Google Street View, Apple Look Around, Yandex Panorama and others. Its tagline is "Everything about Google Street View and more!", and the "more" is real: the homepage mixes Google coverage updates with Apple Maps releases and Yandex expansion news. If you want to know when a country, city or region gets photographed for a mapping service, this is the kind of site that reports it.
What the site actually publishes
The homepage is a chronological feed of articles, each with a category label, an author byline, a date, a reading time and a view count. Recent items show the range of topics:
| Article | Category | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Look Around Finally Releases in Thailand | Apple Maps, Articles | 2026/10/10 |
| Yandex Panorama and its expansion into Central Asia | Articles, Mapping Services | 2026/10/10 |
| Last Month on Google Street View: September 2026 | Articles, List Updates | 2026/10/01 |
| Google Street View Vehicles Hit the Roads of Jamaica for Major Mapping Campaign | Facts, Google Cars | 2026/09/28 |
| Last Month on Google Street View: August 2026 | Articles, Updates | 2026/09/01 |
| Apple Look Around arrives in the Baltic States and more parts of Europe | Apple Maps, Articles | 2026/08/27 |
| Google launches Street View in Kosovo | Articles, Coverage Updates | 2026/07/29 |
Two patterns stand out. First, the recurring "Last Month on Google Street View" series is a monthly roundup — the September 2026 edition covers expansions in the Caucasus and mentions a possible new country. Second, coverage is not Google-only: Apple Look Around and Yandex Panorama get their own articles, including regional rollouts such as three new Uzbek cities for Yandex.
Who it is for
- Map and imagery enthusiasts who follow which regions are being photographed and when.
- Travelers and virtual explorers planning to check whether a destination is covered before diving into Street View or Look Around.
- Anyone tracking a specific service's progress — for example, following Apple Look Around's country-by-country rollout or Google's remaining gaps in the Balkans.
How to use it
- Open the homepage to see the newest posts in reverse-chronological order.
- Scan the category labels — "Coverage Updates", "List Updates", "Google Cars", "Apple Maps" — to filter by what you care about.
- Use the pagination at the bottom (currently 17 pages) to browse older coverage.
- For a quick status check on a region, the monthly roundups are the fastest read; single-country articles give the detail.
What it is not
It is a news and tracking site, not a map viewer. It reports on street-level imagery rather than hosting it, so you still view the actual panoramas in Google Maps, Apple Maps or Yandex. The site also does not present itself as an official Google, Apple or Yandex source — treat it as independent coverage and verify major claims against the services themselves.