![]() Move the time slider around to view past images categorized by the years they were taken. When you are on Google Street View, the area with the historical Street View feature will have a small clock icon on the top left corner, right below the address.Ĭlick on it and a small window that has a timeline you can drag will pop up. ![]() It is carried out by a simple application added to the normal Street View interface. At some locations there will only be two versions of photos in others, there might be more and at very few places, Google has taken photos every year so you will be able to view the photos from every previous year. This means you can now check every single photo Google took within the eight year time period at a same location the photos are aligned to have the same perspective as one another as much as possible. It allows people to “go back in time” and view old Street View imageries up to eight years ago, from 2014 to the year 2007. “If you’ve ever dreamt of being a time traveler like Doc Brown, now’s your chance,” Google stated in their blog as the first line of their introduction to Historical Street View. On April 23, Google officially announced the launch of Historical Street View. Eventually they decided to add all of the archived photography back to the maps for users to view and dig through. They recently discovered the value in those old Street View images due to the many user requests to view them again. In the past, when Google finished updating the street view photos, they removed the old imagery. It provides photo coverage of more than six million miles of road. Google Map’s Street View has always been an amazing feature.
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