History of Google Street View / Jordan
Google launched the first views of Jordan in late 2015, the coverage included trekker and tripod views of various historical sites, museums and archaeological sites such as Petra and Jerash.[1]
In April 2015, the Madaba Tourism Directorate officially announced that Google was going to photograph several historical sites in the governorate.[2]
In November 2015, Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan announced about Google's collaboration with the Jordanian Ministry of Culture, and how the new views of monuments around the country would boost tourism as well as heritage preservation, being the fifth major landmark image collection for the Google Street View Project within Middle East & North Africa, after the digitization of monuments in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Cairo.[3]
Part of the filming of the Petra Ruins were photographed by Zain Masri using a Google Trekker to cover different parts of the historical sites.[4]
In January 2017, the Alghad Newspaper reported that the Google Street View car was driving in the Al Abdali Commercial District (Arabic: منطقة العبدلي), Central Amman.[5] In February 2017, the Facebook group for Amman Google Local Guides announced that the project to introduce Street View to Jordan was being completed.[6]
In April 2017, the Google Earth team officially announced the publication of imagery on traditional dwellings around the world including a Bedouin tent in the Wadi Rum Protected Area within the Aqaba Governorate.[7] In April 2018, Google officially released the street view of several Jordanian cities.[8]
The company in charge of bringing street view to the country was Kiwi Media Solutions, in mid-2018, the company announced a press release about the process carried out by their team such as digitization of several avenues in Amman and other Jordanian cities as well as views made with a trekker of historical sites.[9]
History
Note: We take into account the date when the coverage was taken, not the date when it was published.
Source: Jordan's Coverage Dates - Emily Geo Website
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Gallery
Trekkers
Gen 3 Cameras
References
El Khoury, R. (2015-11-23) "Google Adds 30 Historical And Touristic Jordanian Sites To Street View, Petra And Jerash Included" Android Police.
Janineh, W. (2015-04-29) "من اجل تعزيز مكانة الاردن على الخارطة السياحية العالمية ستقوم وزارة السياحة والاثار بالتنسيق (Google) بتصوير المواقع السياحية والاثرية الموجودة في المملكة اعتباراً من 30/4/2015 ول" [In order to enhance Jordan's position on the global tourism map, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in coordination with Google, will photograph the tourist and archaeological sites located in the Kingdom as of April 30, 2015.] Madaba Tourism Directorate via Facebook (in Arabic)
"Queen Rania Invites Tourists to Virtually Explore Jordan Wonders via Google Street View" (2015-11-24) Office of Her Majesty – Press Department
Karpel, D. "Zain Masri went from globe-trotting intern to marketing lead" (2020-09-16) Google The Keyword.
"سيارة مجهزة بمعدات حديثة لقراءة أحوال الطقس، تسير في شوارع عمان ظهر أمس." [Translation: A car equipped with modern equipment to read weather conditions, driving through the streets of Amman yesterday afternoon.] (2017-01-28) Alghad Newspaper via Facebook (in Arabic)
"انجازات فريق Google Street View في الأردن والعمل مستمر للان" [Translation: Achievements of the Google Street View team in Jordan and work is continuing now] Amman Google Local Guides via Facebook (in Arabic)
"Welcome home to the new Google Earth" (2017-04-19) Google The Keyword.
Oliveira, G. (2018-04-20) "Google adiciona Jordânia ao Street View" GSV Brasil Blog (in Portuguese)
Did you hear? #Amman is now accessible in #StreetView! We partnered up with @googlemaps to help them cover over five cities in #Jordan as well as 150 locations in the Middle East in stunning 360 imagery to be featured in the Street View Special Collects. (2018-07-03) Kiwi Media Solutions via Instagram
