Mobile users will now be able to view Google Street View’s
historic images of the location they’re looking at, by tapping on the screen
while in Street View mode and then selecting “see more dates.” There, they will
be able to see all of Street View’s historic imagery of that location,
potentially dating back all the way to 2007, if Street View’s camera was
present.
The company also unveiled a brand new compact and lightweight
camera system. This new camera weighs less than half of the current Google
Street View cameras and is more customizable.
Google Street View launched 15 years ago and during that
period it has collected over 220 billion photos in over 100 countries and territories.
While the idea of a “street” often means roads and therefore car-mounted
cameras, Google Street View has gone well beyond the beaten path to provide
photos and views of locations that can only be reached by foot.
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“Browse each of the images to see a digital time capsule
that shows how a place has changed — like how the Vessel in New York City’s
Hudson Yards grew from the ground up.”
Google has only just begun rolling these new features out,
so some users may have to wait before they have access to them.
An Amazing Resource
Google Street View’s historical imagery is a fascinating
tool that allows people to see what their home, workplace, or favorite location
looked like a decade or so earlier.
Google Earth already offers the chance to see what a
landscape looked like more than 15 years ago thanks to satellite imagery, and
the Street View historical feature could prove to be an extremely valuable tool
in the future.
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