Detroit Google Street View oddities

[Jimaz]

... but in 1 picture in any direction the same building is boarded up!!

I find it common in Detroit that their intersection photos are different. They must have made multiple passes with different cameras. The intersection photos are often higher resolution with better color.

I hope this thread takes off. I find the subject fascinating.

Another curiousity I noticed is that they seem to deliberately blur faces and licence plate numbers. Once I spotted a campaign sign with a face that had been blurred. Another time there was a patch high up in a tree that had been similarly blurred as if it were a face. This indicates to me that they're using some kind of automated face recognition algorithm. I'd like to learn more about how that works.

[Bearinabox]

I find it common in Detroit that their intersection photos are different. They must have made multiple passes with different cameras. The intersection photos are often higher resolution with better color.

The intersection photos were upgraded relatively recently, and the parts of the city added at the same time [[Green Acres, for instance) have high-resolution coverage throughout. What I don't understand is what they gained by turning the new high-res cameras on only at intersections instead of reshooting larger swaths of the city that way as they were driving between intersections.

Then again, they caught me on one of the low-res passes, so I kind of hope they don't upgrade that particular stretch of road for a while.