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Go back in time with Street View
April 23, 2014
If you’ve ever dreamt of being a time traveler like
Doc Brown
, now’s your chance. Starting today, you can travel to the past to see how a place has changed over the years by exploring Street View imagery in
Google Maps
for desktop. We've gathered historical imagery from past Street View collections dating back to 2007 to create this digital time capsule of the world.
If you see a clock icon in the upper left-hand portion of a Street View image, click on it and move the slider through time and select a thumbnail to see that same place in previous years or seasons.
Now with Street View, you can see a landmark's growth from the ground up, like the
Freedom Tower
in New York City or the
2014 World Cup Stadium
in Fortaleza, Brazil. This new feature can also serve as a digital timeline of recent history, like the reconstruction after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in
Onagawa, Japan
. You can even experience different seasons and see what it would be like to cruise
Italian roadways
in both summer and winter.
Construction of the
Freedom Tower
, New York City
Destruction in
Onagawa
, Japan after the 2011 earthquake
Forget going 88 mph in a
DeLorean
—you can stay where you are and use Google Maps to virtually explore the world as it is—and as it was. Happy (time) traveling!
Posted by Vinay Shet, Google Street View Product Manager
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