Street View snapshots will now include an option to see what neighborhoods and landmarks looked like at different periods in the last seven years, as Google Inc. Masking will be available on the older photos too, Shet said, even if it's just because a person didn't like the way he or she looked a few years ago. Google now blurs the images of people who contact the company asking to be shielded from Street View. Some Street View pictures posted through the years have also upset people who were captured in activities or visiting places that they wanted to keep private. Over time, some of these people will die and Google expects those pictures will have special meaning for survivors and other descendants. For instance, Street View's scenes often include people who happened to be in the frame when Google's cars took the picture. Clicking on the clock produces a visual portal into different time periods. When a retrospective is available in Street View, a small clock appears in the left corner of the current picture of a location. The look-back feature will be available in all but three of those countries: Germany and Switzerland, where government regulations restrict Google's use of the past images, and South Africa, where technical problems have slowed the feature's rollout. Google declined to say how many pictures are already in Street View, which spans 55 countries. Google's new feature is displaying more photos of major city centers over time than suburban streets because the company's camera-bearing cars return to densely populated areas more frequently.Īdding the photos from the past will roughly double the total imagery in Street View once the rollout is completed in the next two days. The visual retrospectives aren't available throughout Google's maps, although Shet says there should be at least one look back in time for just about every neighborhood that can be viewed through the Street View format. Even looking at the evolution of Times Square during the past seven years can evoke nostalgic feelings while gazing at a giant billboard advertising a flip-style cellphone in 2007. In New York, the Street View map presents a string of photos illustrating the changing skyline as the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center was built.
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will provide a look at the restoration of the historic Howard Theatre in the nation's capital. Others show the gradual recovery of New Orleans neighborhoods in the years following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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Some photos show how neighborhoods in cities like Tohoku, Japan looked before and after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck in March 2011. Google makes money off its maps from advertising, so the Mountain View, Calif., company is constantly coming up with new attractions to keep people coming back.Įven though the photos only date back to 2007, some of them illustrate dramatic changes. “If you’re a kid today, 50 years from now you’ll be able to walk through the memories of your old neighbourhood,” Google senior vice president of infrastructure Urs Holzle said of the “cool new feature” in a post at Google+ social network.Like everything else on Google's map, the time-tripping option is free. Historical images from Street View archives dating back to 2007 can be explored at Google Maps on desktop computers in what Shet depicted as a “digital time capsule of the world”.Įxamples displayed included the 2014 World Cup Stadium taking shape in Brazil and reconstruction in Japan after a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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“If you’ve ever dreamt of being a time traveller like Doc Brown, now is your chance,” Street View product manager Vinay Shet said in a blog post, referring to a character from the 1985 comic fiction film “Back to the Future.”
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The technology titan began letting people turn back the clock on Street View images to show how places have changed over the seven years it has been collecting pictures for its free online map service. SAN FRANCISCO – Google on Wednesday added virtual time travel to its Internet offerings.