--- title: "Google Street View in 2026" url: https://daily.dev/posts/google-street-view-in-2026-d1nowtr1b source_url: https://tech.marksblogg.com/google-street-view-coverage.html type: article source: "Hacker News" published: 2026-02-26T20:35:49.316Z updated: 2026-02-26T20:36:15.725Z tags: ["data-analysis", "big-data", "duckdb"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Google Street View in 2026 **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on walkthrough of converting Google Street View global coverage data into a spatially-sorted Parquet file using DuckDB. The process involves downloading 131 JSON files (~647 MB), importing them into DuckDB with geospatial extensions (H3, Spatial, Lindel), and exporting a Hilbert-curve-sorted, ZStandard-compressed Parquet file of 7.16 million points. The resulting dataset is then queried by year and visualized by region using QGIS with Esri basemaps, revealing Street View capture patterns across Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas, and more. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [3.4M Solar Panels](https://daily.dev/posts/3-4m-solar-panels-eejxbhjah) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [The World's 2.75B Buildings](https://daily.dev/posts/the-world-s-2-75b-buildings-qez1vkwg5) · Hacker News · 2 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#data-analysis](https://daily.dev/tags/data-analysis), [#big-data](https://daily.dev/tags/big-data), [#duckdb](https://daily.dev/tags/duckdb) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/google-street-view-in-2026-d1nowtr1b)