last may View from the street turned 15, and to celebrate Google Maps announced that we would be able to time travel to see what a street or place looked like in the past from the app itself, without having to resort to its desktop website.
Well, after three months of waiting google maps time machine It is now available for all Android users. As we will see below, it is also simple and fast to travel in time for see what a site looked like years ago
So you can see what a place looked like years ago
For more than 15 years, cars from Google Street View They have not stopped photographing our streets and highways, which now allows us to access spherical photographs of previous years from our mobile to go back in time and remember what it was or what it was was on our street in the past.
Travel back in time with Google Maps for Android it is very simple. To do this, just follow these simple steps:
- Click on the site or long press on the area you want to see until its Street View tab and thumbnail appear.
- Click on the Street View thumbnail
- Once in Street View, click “See more dates”.
- Go there by clicking on the dates to see in full screen what this site looked like that year.
In the Google Maps time machine date carousel, we will see the month and year in which the Google Street Maps car passed that street. Using the dates or double taps on the screen, we can navigate and explore its streets to see what it was like that year. We may also share a link with our contacts so that they can see what this site looked like in a given year.
As expected, not all streets in Google Street View have photos of every year, and 15 years ago, so we have to settle for the list of years that appears in the app.
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