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There are two types of car and camera meta in Albania:
Coverage where the Google car has a long antenna and you can see rifts in the sky.
Coverage where the Google car has a short antenna and there are no rifts visible.
You can click on the image to enlarge it. You can also use this Maps layer to look at the coverage in more detail (credits to icraig1205).
Andorra only has Generation 2 and Generation 3 coverage. In all Generation 3 coverage, a medium-short antenna is visible on the Google car.
Generation 3 is by far the most common. Almost all of Generation 2 is overwritten and is mostly confined to a couple of smaller off-roads.
A long antenna can be seen in Generation 3 coverage.
This unique tin foil antenna can be found in western Austria, mostly near the Swiss border.
NOTE: This antenna is unique to Austria.
Shitcam coverage is found on Ilha de São Miguel and Ilha do Faial.
The car seen on São Miguel has an indentation in the centre, while the one on Faial appears as a smooth surface, sometimes with an antenna visible.
Coverage with a red car and a long antenna can rarely be seen in Belgium.
NOTE: This is much more common in Ukraine.
Bolivia only has Generation 3 camera coverage. All of the country was covered by a solid white Google car with no antenna.
NOTE: In Latin America, white cars with no antenna can also be found in Peru and Chile.
In Francistown, you can often see a lone hill with radio antennas, which is located on the north side of the city. This hill is a good way to distinguish Francistown from Gaborone.
NOTE: The town of Serowe has a similar hill with antennas. Here, the towers are taller, red-and-white striped, and the hill has a flat top.
In Generation 3 coverage, you can see two different cars:
A white car with a stubby antenna. There is a diagonal coil wrapped around the antenna.
A white car with no antenna.
The car’s colour is not always visible, meaning you will often see either just the stubby antenna, or no hints of the car at all.
The stubby antenna with a diagonal coil can also be found in Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico.
The 364 through Acre is very recognisable due to the rollercoaster-like landscape and road: the road uniquely rides the hills rather than snaking around them. There is usually no traffic, and is covered mostly by Generation 3 with an antenna.
There are three types of Generation 4 cars that were used to cover Bulgaria:
A blue car, which can be found in most European countries.
A red car, which is also found in Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia, and Sweden. Of these, Russia and Slovakia are easiest to confuse with Bulgaria.
A black car, which is found in many European countries; of which Greece and Croatia are the ones more likely to be confused with Bulgaria.
All cars can be found with or without antenna. Additionally, you can also encounter coverage where the car is completely hidden.
You can commonly see a small piece of grey tape at the top of the car antenna in Generation 3 coverage. The community sometimes refers to it as “flag antenna”.
Not all Gen 3 coverage has this tape.
NOTE: This can also be seen in Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania.
A red Generation 4 Street View car is mostly found in central and southeastern Bulgaria.
This car can be found with and without an antenna.
Generation 3 coverage with a piece of tape on a short antenna can be commonly found in the eastern part of Bulgaria.
NOTE: Tape antennas can very rarely appear in other provinces, the only provinces where it’s never found are Vratsa, Montana, Pazardzhik and Smolyan.
Generation 3 locations with a taped long antenna and visible white car can be found in Stara Zagora, and rarely a few small roads in Plovdiv and Burgas.
NOTE: This combination of car and antenna can be found more commonly in other European countries as well. Make sure to use other clues.
This antenna with unpeeled tape at the top, resulting in a bulkier antenna tip, can be found in the Varna Province. Coverage with this antenna is exclusively in March, resulting in a dead winter look.
On the Generation 3 coverage you can find two different Google cars:
A car with a short, stubby antenna. The antenna has three ridges. It can sometimes be hard to tell if the antenna has ridges.
A white car with stripes and no antenna. There is a white stripe on the left, and a yellow stripe on the right. The stripes are sometimes poorly visible.
The car is not always as visible as shown in the example images.
NOTE: This specific striped white car is unique to Cambodia. Make sure not to mix it up with the Bangladeshi striped car, which looks slightly different.
The Latin American countries of Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil also have cars with similar short antennas. However, these have a diagonally coiled ridge, instead of Cambodia’s three ridges.
The remote town of Churchill in northern Manitoba features a trekker with a distinct thin antenna visible on the front right side of the car. The town also has unique street signs.
NOTE: This coverage is also seen in the surrounding area.
This unique Google car and dark-coloured soil is found in Tulita, NWT. The car will most often look like this, but can also be fully blurred with just the antenna visible, or with the hood of the car visible.
Conguillio National Park can be recognized by this white truck with visible side mirrors and an antenna on the front right.
The Atacama Large Millimetre Array can be recognized by the many radio telescopes in a barren, snowy environment.
ALMA OSF can be recognized by the large radio telescopes and rural facilities.
In Generation 3 coverage, a short thick antenna is sometimes visible with a black, white or grey car. In Generation 4 coverage, a white or silver car is commonly found.
NOTE: Within the Americas, you can also find the antenna in Mexico, Ecuador and Brazil. However, Colombia is the only country with this antenna on a black Google car.
Costa Rica’s Generation 4 imagery was captured using a large white pickup truck. In many locations, it is either fully or partially visible, but can occasionally be entirely blurred out. There is an antenna attached to the front of the car.
NOTE: The Panamanian truck has a distinctive white metal frame behind the driver’s cabin and a fully blurred out car is more common there. The truck used in Ecuador does not have an antenna.
The antenna can occasionally be seen folded down, predominantly in the north and northeast of the country.
A black generation 4 car that will never have an antenna can be found in Croatia.
NOTE: A black car can be found in many European countries, though it will often have an antenna visible.
A white generation 4 car that will never have an antenna can be found in Croatia.
NOTE: A white car can be found in many European countries, though it will often have an antenna visible.
Most coverage on the island was taken with a Generation 4 “smallcam”, which is mounted lower than regular Generation 4 and has a relatively big circular blur with a small protrusion at the front. The blur can also be fully transparent, with a short antenna sometimes visible on the back.
NOTE: Greece also has a significant amount of smallcam coverage, but will never have a visible antenna.
A car antenna with a grey piece of tape stuck to the top can be seen on much of the Generation 3 coverage in Czechia and Slovakia.
NOTE: This can also be seen in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
All Generation 3 coverage is made with a white car, with a short and thick antenna (“stubby antenna”). The antenna and or car are not always visible.
NOTE: Mexico, Brazil and Colombia can also have this same short antenna.
This antenna on a black car can only be found in Colombia, which can help with tough 50-50s with Ecuador. Note that Colombia can also simply have a white car.
All Generation 4 coverage was captured using a white pickup truck with a black trunk and no antenna.
NOTE: The pickup truck in Panama and Costa Rica has an antenna on the front.
The Google car antenna has two distinct variations:
The “high” antenna (purple), where the wire around the antenna is entirely above the halfway line of the antenna.
And the “low” antenna (blue) where the majority of the wire is below the halfway point of the line, and there can be a small bit poking up at the very top.
This is most useful when you have the high antenna, since it will always be in the northern half of the country.
The Amazon area is very distinct. It is fairly flat, and contains many of these trees with white bark (Cordia trichotoma), and oil palms.
The vast majority of the coverage notably uses the rarer “high antenna”.
The generation 4 coverage was captured with a black pickup truck with an antenna on the front. The truck is always blurred.
NOTE: The truck in Iceland does not have a similar antenna.
This slightly tilted, long antenna can be found in southwestern Finland.
NOTE: Do not mix it up with the straight long antenna.
Generation 3 coverage with no antenna at all can be found in south-central Finland.
On rare occasions, you may find a flag attached to the antenna in the generation 3 coverage. While much of the highlighted areas has been overwritten, learning the distribution of each antenna can yield very high scores.
NOTE: All pictured colourful antenna flags are unique to France.
This rare Generation 3 car coverage with an antenna can be found in central Hamburg.
All coverage in Gibraltar is Generation 3. The car will always have a unique long antenna with a silver tip, often referred to simply as the “Gibraltar antenna” by the community.
NOTE: This antenna can also be found in parts of Spain, but nowhere else in Europe. In addition, the parts of Spain where this antenna can be found do not border Gibraltar.
On Crete, you may find this unique car antenna, with a slight bulge at the tip.
In Thessaloniki, you will often see a large amount of unusually tall antennas on top of buildings.
Narsaq can be identified by the thin antenna seen on the right side of the car. The coverage is very sunny and fairly green.
A mostly white boat, with extremely tall antennas on the rear can be found going into the fjord east of Nuuk.
The entire Google car is blurred, however an antenna at the front right and a tiny part of the roof rack can be seen.
NOTE: You will not see a roof rack on the Northern Mariana Islands Google car.
A stubby antenna can be seen in most Generation 3 coverage on Hawaii.
NOTE: The antenna is not always visible, so make sure to look out for other clues before guessing.
It is somewhat common to see a small, grey flag on the antenna of Generation 3 Google cars in Hungary.
NOTE: This is also seen in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.
The Generation 3 Google car in Iceland is a white car with a long antenna.
The coverage on road NH326 (labelled 326) west of Brahmapur in Odisha has a thin grey antenna. The images are generally very high-quality for shitcam, with an especially high quality near the Harabhangi Reservoir.
Satellite dishes can help you determine whether you are north or south of the equator. For example, if the satellite dish points north, you are most likely south of it, and vice versa. The angle of the satellite dish can also tell you how far away from the equator you are. The more levelled it is, the closer you are.
Generation 3 antenna coverage is most commonly found on Java, but can very rarely be seen on Bali in and around Denpasar. It is most commonly seen in East Java, as most of the antenna coverage in the west has been overwritten by Generation 4.
Most Generation 3 coverage was taken by a black Street View car with a long antenna.
You may also see the black car without an antenna and a silver car with a short antenna.
The Campione d'Italia exclave in Switzerland can be recognized by its low camera, having a long antenna and a flag. There is also a body of water to the west.
NOTE: This antenna can also be found in several areas in Switzerland.
The appearance of the standard Japanese Google car is often black and white. You may find it in black or rarely with an antenna.
In addition, due to privacy reasons, the camera is intentionally set lower to the ground. This is known as low-cam. You can identify it by:
Looking downwards. The blur will be noticeably larger.
The road will look wider, and objects will be viewed from a lower perspective.
NOTE: The only other country that always has low-cam is Switzerland. It can also be seen in Generation 4 coverage in Sri Lanka. Also, the car will be blurred in Switzerland.
In the centre of Osh, you can see these unique mountains with radio masts on top of them.
This unique grey car with a long front antenna can be found in Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak.
The Generation 3 coverage in Mexico mainly feature two cars:
A white car with a stubby antenna. There is a diagonal coil wrapped around the antenna.
A white car with a more visible back and a long red brake light instead of an antenna.
It is possible to find a white car without a stubby antenna, but with a tiny sliver visible where the antenna should be.
Generation 4 coverage in the capital uses a silver truck with an ornate blue & white roof decal, with a snorkel and long antenna on the front right. While the unique roof can be seen in most locations, some locations blur most of the car, leaving only the snorkel and antenna visible. This car can only be found around Ulaanbaatar.
Ölgii is a large town in the west, that is surrounded by close, dry rocky mountains. Towards the south end of town, there is a tall red & white radio tower, that can be seen from all across town and is quite distinct to Ölgii.
This map shows the distribution of where rifts are found. Although rifts are common in Montenegro, coastal rounds will almost never have them. By the coast, there will be a short antenna with no rifts. There will be a long antenna with rifts inland.
NOTE: An exception to this is the area around the coastal villages of Utjeha and Dobra Voda.
You can click on the image to enlarge it.
All the coverage in Namibia was taken with a white pickup truck with a short antenna on the front. Notably, this antenna will always lean slightly to the left.
NOTE: No other country in southern Africa has a similar car. The most similar country with this type of car is Oman, however the antenna there will never lean left, but often clearly to the right.
If the blue car has an antenna, you will be around Pokhara.
A red car, that usually has a long antenna, can be found in Kathmandu, and north of Janakpur, which is southeast of Kathmandu.
All coverage in North Macedonia is Generation 3. There will never be an antenna on the Google car.
Every other country in Europe will sometimes or always have an antenna in Generation 3 coverage. For clarity’s sake: this means that cars with no antenna can be found outside North Macedonia.
NOTE: The only other country to have no antenna the majority of the time is Serbia, although there will be an antenna sometimes.
The entire Google car is blurred, however an antenna at the front right can be seen. The antenna is also noticeably closer to the camera than in the Guam Google car.
The coverage in Oman was taken with a white pickup truck. In most locations, the truck is fully blurred out, however you may sometimes see the antenna or the front of the car.
A regular-looking antenna that faces upwards is mainly found around and west of Muscat, as well as on highways in the northwest. A few other pockets include Al Buraimi and Sohar.
A forwards-facing antenna is only found in and around Muscat.
Panama was covered by a large white pickup truck with a white metal frame behind the driver's cabin, that can either be fully visible or mostly blurred. There is always a short black antenna attached to the front of the car, which may sometimes also be blurred.
NOTE: The Costa Rican truck does not have this white metal frame. Also, a fully blurred out car is more common in Panama. The car used in Ecuador has neither an antenna nor a white metal railing.
The antenna can be seen folded down, most commonly in Colón and Panamá provinces, and occasionally in the city of David.
Nearly all of the coverage was captured with smallcam, a variant of Generation 4, which in this case can be recognised by the wide blur and antenna that is often visible. The camera is lower and the front blur more round than pickup truck blurs.
The Generation 3 Street View car found in Puerto Rico has an antenna at the front right. The antenna has a small white dot on the tip.
NOTE: The Google car on Guam and NMI also have an antenna at the front right. Make sure to look out for other clues before guessing.
The Google car will usually be blurred, with only the antenna on the left and a sliver of the car visible. Sometimes the entire white pickup truck can be visible. Rusty clips can be seen on the crossbar.
See the region guessing section for more information.
This very short antenna is found in northern Qatar.
This fairly long antenna is found in and around Doha.
And this long antenna is mostly found in southwestern Qatar.
Three Generation 3 Street View cars are commonly found in Russia. The two most useful ones for recognising Russia are a black and a white car, both with a long antenna. You may also see a short antenna without a visible car.
Lush and diverse forests in a hilly landscape characterises the noticeably warmer region around Vladivostok. Most of the coverage is overcast and has a white car with a long antenna. Further south, near the tri-border, you will find a more open rolling hill landscape.
The main road of Altai Republic has a black car long antenna driving north through the Altai Mountains, often with foggy or rainy coverage.
Dry steppe mountains with a long antenna will usually indicate the Tuva Republic. The south part of the main road in the Altai Republic and Tuva can appear similarly dry, so things such as driving direction and cloudiness can be used to distinguish them.
White car long antenna is found in many places, most commonly in southern Chelyabinsk, on snow coverage around Novosibirsk, and in the Far East beginning in Amur Oblast.
NOTE: While Kamchatka technically has a silver car (with a B type antenna), it often appears white and is part of the small group of exceptions to black and white.
The A-type short antenna has its highest ridge on the right. Notable areas for this antenna are around Kaluga, Orenburg, and Krasnodar.
The B-type short antenna has its highest ridge on the left. This antenna is wide-ranging, but it is most notably found near Nizhny Novgorod, Elista, and Yekaterinburg and Tyumen.
The B-type pronounced antenna is the same as the B-type antenna but the ridge is more “rectangular”. This antenna is fairly limited, only being found commonly in Moscow Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, near Krasnoyarsk, and southwest Krasnodar.
The C-type short antenna can be thought of as a low A-type or a “twisting antenna” with the ridges being further from the top. It is found north and east of Moscow, with the furthest south being Rostov Oblast.
The blurred short antenna is visibly blurrier than any of the other short antennas. It is mainly found in two major clusters around Ufa and from Stavropol to Makhachkala.
The A-type long antenna has its highest ridge on the right side. Notable areas include Leningrad Oblast, Republic of Karelia, and Vologda Oblast. Almost all the white car long antenna coverage is A-type, so checking for A-type can also help confirm car colour.
The B-type long antenna has its highest ridge on the left side. Notable areas include Yaroslav to Vladimir, Tula Oblast, and much of the coverage near Tuva and Irkutsk.
NOTE: There are two other long antenna types, referred to as CA and CB, but due to their relative lack of usefulness they will not be covered here.
Blurred long antenna is visibly blurrier than other long antenna cars, and is a strong clue for Sakhalin and various roads in the east, as well as much of Khanty-Mansi. On the other end there exists a blurred antenna in far western Bryansk Oblast and some of Tula Oblast.
The tilted short antenna is visibly tilted to the left and can be found primarily on a diagonal from St. Petersburg down to Volgograd, with exceptions in Stavropol and Ufa. Since the ridge is on the same side, it can sometimes appear as the A-type short antenna.
The Khabarovsk-Vanino road has a mountainous landscape with very sunny coverage. It also drives west with a black car with a blurred, long antenna, which helps to confirm.
In many locations, you will notice a slanted antenna protruding from the side of the car.
The silver Generation 4 car with a long antenna at the front left can be seen on many roads, but none past the eastern border of Diourbel Region.
NOTE: The antenna is visible even if the car is blurred.
The white Generation 4 car but with the antenna down, parallel to the car’s roof, can be found on the N6 between Ziguinchor and Kolda.
Most of the coverage in Serbia was taken by a Google car with no antenna.
NOTE: Other than North Macedonia, almost all of central and eastern Europe has antenna coverage in Generation 3.
A white Google Car with a short antenna can be seen in Novi Sad, Kovilj, in and around Belgrade, Niš, and the E75 connecting them.
NOTE: The white car is not always visible.
A car antenna with a grey piece of tape stuck to the top can be seen on much of the Generation 3 coverage.
NOTE: This can also be seen in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.
All Generation 4 coverage in South Africa was taken by a blue Street View car with a short antenna.
NOTE: The antenna is sometimes hidden by the blur.
Almost all road coverage in South Korea is made with a Generation 3 camera.
In most, but not all, of the coverage, the back of the Google car is visible. You can see three colours: black, white and silver. The car never has an antenna.
Generation 3 cars can have long, short or no antennas. The back of the car is usually not visible, but when it is, it can be either black or white.
NOTE: Coverage in Eastern Andalusia, Huesca, and Lleida sometimes has a long antenna with a distinctive white top.
In Asturias you can find a black car with no antenna and a visible brake light.
NOTE: This car can very rarely spill into neighbour regions like Galicia.
You can sometimes find a special Generation 3 antenna with a distinctive white top, similar to the one found in Gibraltar.
This antenna is found in the eastern half of Andalusia and in the provinces of Huesca and Lleida in the northeast of the country.
A white street view car with a long antenna is featured on a lot of Generation 3 coverage.
NOTE: A similar car is found on all road coverage in Iceland and is also somewhat common in Finland. While it exists in both Norway and Denmark, it is extremely rare in both.
In Generation 3 coverage, you can find this black car with a long antenna and a red brake light in the middle, similar to the one you can see in Russia.
The Google car in Tunisia is black with a medium-length, thin antenna.
NOTE: The colour of the car is not always perceptible. Make sure to look around for other more helpful clues.
In the Generation 3 coverage, the Google car never has an antenna.
The Generation 4 coverage in Turkey typically features a white Google car. Usually, only a tiny sliver of the back of the car is visible. The car can have a short antenna, or no antenna at all.
All coverage in Ukraine is Generation 3. Most of it was made using a red Google car. This car is almost unique to Ukraine. It sometimes has an antenna, and sometimes no antenna. Note that the car is not always visible, though at times you will still be able to tell its colour due to the car blur glitch.
NOTE: The car meta can be very useful to tell Ukraine and Russia apart:
Most importantly, you will not find the red Generation 3 car in Russia.
Russia can have Generation 4 (and sometimes Generation 2). Ukraine never has either Generation.
Russian Generation 3 cars always have either a short or long antenna. If you see no antenna at all, consider Ukraine.
Also note that some parts of Belgium can have a red google car with a long antenna.
More rarely, you can also find several other Google cars in Ukraine:
These cars can be found in multiple countries, including Russia. See the region guessing section to see where you can find these cars within Ukraine.
The older 2011 coverage in Odesa was made using a silver car with a short antenna, rather than a black or white car with a long antenna. The car may sometimes be fully blurred.
Red soil can be seen on some ultra-rural dirt tracks around the iron mine in Kryvyi Rih, due to mining activity. Brazilian-style poles can also be seen, making locations around the mine very convincing bait. The foliage, however, will be significantly less tropical, and a long antenna can be seen.
On one side of the road going to Chernobyl, a yellow flag with an Opel logo can be seen on the Google car’s antenna.
In Generation 4 coverage, a white pickup truck with a trekker camera was used for much of the coverage. In a lot of the coverage, the truck is completely blurred out.
NOTE: A similar truck can be found in Qatar and Oman. In the UAE the antenna at the front of the cabin is on the middle of the car, while in Qatar it is on the left.
Generation 3 coverage in the US and Canada generally has no visible antenna. This can be helpful to distinguish it from Europe in low-info rounds. Some European Generation 3 coverage has no visible antenna, but most of it does.
There is an important exception: in national parks in the US, you can find a Generation 3 car with a stubby antenna with diagonal coils around it. Still, this specific type of antenna is not found in Europe.
A white car without an antenna can also be seen on St Croix, however it will be less common than the red car.
A white car with an antenna can only be seen in the northern islands of St Thomas and St John. The cab is also noticeably shorter than the other two cars.