A Google spokesman said yesterday the exact timing of the visit to Port Macquarie was uncertain, but the new digital landscapes would be posted online next year.

Street View is an online application that provides 360-degree photographs of most public roads in the country, allowing users to wander the streets of any town in Australia online.

“Starting from next month in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and parts of Tasmania, we’ll be doing our best to cover as many of Australia’s public roads as we can during this summer,” Google product manager Andrew Foster said.

“Street View is most useful useful when the imagery is up-to-date and reflective of what you’d see if you visited an area in person,” he said.

The camera-bearing cars were last in Port Macquarie in 2007.

“The images we’re collecting this time will be crisper than before – making Street View even more useful when using it to find that restaurant you’ve forgotten the name of, or when reading street signs,” Mr Foster said.

“It will also make our face-blurring technology even more accurate, because faces and licence plates will be easier for our blurring technology to recognise.”

Street View has been widely criticised for infringing on people’s privacy.

In response, the website now allows anyone to report problems and to have images blurred or removed.