Many years have passed since Google Street View arrived in Europe, and became an essential tool, being part of Google Maps. The company uses cars (and other vehicles) to make 360-degree photos in every citybut few people have seen one of these cars in person as they cruise the streets.
Whether out of simple curiosity or trying to appear in Street View images, maybe you want to see the Google car in person (or maybe you know someone who does). There’s no way to know exactly which street you’ll be on at what time, but there is a way to find out. know what city you’re going to be in over a period of time.
Where is the Google Street View car?
Google updates photos of the streets of our cities from time to time. They usually update the images as they pass between 1 and 3 years, depending on the city, although more popular and populated regions may be updated more frequently. This is why, even if a street is already part of Street View, the car will cross it again at some point.
To do this, Google uses cars equipped with cameras capable of capturing 360 degree imagesalthough they also use special backpacks equipped with cameras that can be carried by motorcycle, bicycle or even on foot, in specific cases.
Google details how this tool works on the official Street View website, but in addition, this page allows Check which cities and areas will be mapped next. Therefore, we can go to the Street View website and select our community to see when the Google car will do its job.
Image: Google.
Of course, this tool will not tell us the exact day and time when the Google car will be on the streets of our city, but it offers us an estimated date, or time slot, during which it will travel around the city in the one that we live.
To this information we can add the reports published on the WhereistheGoogleCar site, which collect encounters with Google Car that people reported on social media.
For example, at the time of writing, the last time the Google car was seen on the streets of Europe he was on March 15, in the town of Soria, Castile and Leon. Based on the reports of people who saw the car from Street View in the city where we live, we can be more attentive to a possible encounter with the car.
Google Street View is a tool that has been used for much more than just showing images of the streets of our cities. Google even documented the oceans with Street View cameras, and thanks to this tool it was possible to catch a criminal at the end of 2021.
In addition to Street View car and backpacks, Google also allows users to add images to the platform, as long as they are 360 degree imagescaptured with cameras trained for this purpose.
By | The reason
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