Today, we’re unveiling Street View’s newest camera, giving you more ways to explore historical imagery, and taking a closer look at how Street View is powering the future of Google Maps. While that’s all worth celebrating, we aren’t stopping there. And Street View doesn't just help you virtually explore, it’s also critical to our mapping efforts - letting you see the most up-to-date information about the world, while laying the foundation for a more immersive, intuitive map.
Fast forward to today: There are now over 220 billion Street View images from over 100 countries and territories - a new milestone - allowing people to fully experience what it’s like to be in these places right from their phone or computer. The image on the right shows global population density in red.Fifteen years ago, Street View began as a far-fetched idea from Google co-founder Larry Page to build a 360-degree map of the entire world. The map on the left shows you global Street View coverage in blue. How many countries and people has Google missed? It's difficult to count heads, but we can start to answer that question by looking at global population density and comparing it with coverage areas.īelow is a rough slider map tool that compares coverage area (a sum of what's covered above, officially, in blue and light blue) with population density. There are vast sections of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia yet to documented by the Street View surveyor. Want to find yourself with Christ the Redeemer? Boom :īut Street View can only show you the world it has itself discovered, and it's missed a good half of the inhabited planet : Street View is great way to take in daily life in the United States, Europe, and larger Latin American cities. The car's photo maps have showered netizens with some of the most visually iconic experiences on the Web, such as the lot-dwelling Norwegian snorkelbros of Hordaland:
The photos are taken by a compact car with a very powerful volleyball:
Google's goal is to take pictures of what things look like, and not just where they are. Google has almost every city and town on Earth exquisitely surveyed from a bird's eye perspective, including suggestions powered by the company's search engine.īut Street View is a different program. Google Maps Street View cannot show you (all) the world. What if you could only see the world through the eyes of Google's Street View car?
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