A developer has analyzed Google Street View coverage data for 2026, converting 647 MB of JSON files into an 85 MB Parquet dataset containing 7.1 million geospatial points. The analysis tracks when each location was last captured, revealing patterns in Google's global mapping efforts across continents.

The technical setup involved a high-end workstation with AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU, 96 GB DDR5 RAM, and a 4 TB NVMe SSD. Using DuckDB with spatial extensions, the data was processed and exported as a ZStandard-compressed Parquet file. The dataset covers most regions except Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Namibia, Paraguay, and Vietnam.

Analysis shows Street View coverage began in 2003 with sparse points, growing significantly through 2015, then declining as updates became less frequent. Europe shows the oldest coverage dating to 2007, while North America and Australia have denser, more recent data. The visualization reveals Google's mapping priorities over nearly two decades, with darker colors indicating older captures and brighter colors showing recent updates.