Antigua signs agreement to create Google Street view locally

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Antigua and Barbuda’s Digital Leap with Google Street View

Antigua and Barbuda has entered into an exciting collaboration with World Travel in 360, marked by an agreement signed by Prime Minister Gaston Browne and others.

The partnership aims to digitally transform the nation’s landscapes on Google Maps, introducing Google Street View navigation.

This significant move is set to redefine Antigua and Barbuda’s global digital presence, allowing users worldwide to explore its streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks remotely.

Scheduled to commence in February 2024, the initiative promises enhanced accessibility for residents and a boost in global tourism.

Through captivating virtual tours of local businesses, Antigua and Barbuda aims to showcase its cultural richness, fostering economic growth.

As the nation steps onto the global stage, this collaboration signifies a pivotal leap towards a digitally connected and visually accessible future.

World Travel in 360 invites citizens and businesses to participate in this transformative chapter, spotlighting the charm of Antigua and Barbuda to the world.

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  1. This is great news people. We would now be able to see Antigua on Google earth from the street view. Make sure you get caught on camera.

  2. WOW! We did it again!!
    One can already view some of these on Google Maps in the layers function and traffic; but given most the roads has no name; Street View provides a closeup look at our environmental neglect and environmental practices.
    Being more thoughtful. I would have expected that given most of Antigua and Barbuda streetscapes (the streets and roadways) are in such terrible condition, and being more ghetto like rather than being of visual interest; that this its not something that the GOAB would want to promote.

    Surely this will give “users worldwide the opportunity to explore the streets, neighborhoods, and landmarks remotely” and get a closeup visual of the rundown unkept and ramshackle St Johns, with its ghetto type streets with overcrowded lack of navigable sidewalks. Viewers will be able to discern the gutters are holding putrid water and waste.

    They will see a Colonial Town and environs, rather than being restored as many others in the Caribbean; St Johns is a state of visual confusion. One of neglect and haphazard collection of confusing attempts at updated or modernized design, mixed in with depressing looking older structures.

    In the past, The Japanese would take tour busses to Harlem on Sundays mostly to see the ghetto like conditions. Now they go to listen to gospel music and have some soul food.

    Worldwide viewers will be able to view Antigua potholes and gutters as the camara makes its way around them, and momentarily view the overgrown and unkept roadsides.

    It will capture the filthy front yards, dilapidated structures abandoned vehicles, and junkyard setting of many homes. It will eventually make its way to the perimeter of the island with high-end residences and gated developments as well as historical sites.

    Be careful what you wish for.

  3. Preparation will be required before this can become a reality. We should have had postal codes a long time ago and structured development along with street naming. We need to move away from the down the road from the tamarind tree mentality and ensure that each house is numbered, each street is named along with subdivision and postal code. A tourist or visitor should be able to come to Antigua (and Barbuda) and punch in an address and get absolute directions.

  5. It would be nice to clean up Antigua’s dirty laundry first before exposing them on the international community. Is PM Browne more excited by the prospects of what Google Pay, and not what Google Play?

  6. Great stuff. It is now even more important Rhayader we do our part to keep our surroundings neat and clean in our communities.

  7. Need to clean streets up first and it would be a perfect idea especially when people want the wayfinder or sapmaps in there car to get around rental cars could particularly do this but us locals need as well as street directions are terrible

  8. We are not ready for this as yet. As mentioned, all of the streets and villages need to marked clearly. Each building need to be clearly numbered.

  9. Great news, at least we’ll be able to street view how these greedy politicians live and keep where dem live clean and tidy.

    WILL ANTIGUANS WITNESS A “TWO-TIER” SYSTEM? HMMMM! 🤔

    Brixtonian welcomes scrutiny of our elected politicians. Beautiful, bring it on!

  10. Unfortunate that the camera used will not be an official Google camera as World Travel in 360 is not Google. This means the result will be an unofficial coverage with lower quality of imagery and user experience compared to the other countries available on Street View. Namibia, another country coming on Street View, managed to get a partnership with Google who provided the best camera (last generation Trekker camera built by Google) and the same has be done with local companies in Bangladesh or Sri Lanka. Sad that Antigua and Barbuda will not follow the same path.

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