A Brief History of Google Street View 

Fun fact - Old coverage usage used to dress the street view marker up as Dr. Emmet Brown (Back to the Future)

Imagine in the future looking back at the images captured in 2007 and how different things like the traffic will look. It will be like time travel!!

No, they aren't. Shut up.

It's worldwide available.

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I do imagine things like that often it's cool. I also think it would be cool to find a snickers wrapper in some dirt like 250 years from now

There was an exercise in the UK, back the 1980s, called the Domesday Project, that did something similar with stills from VHS footage. There are comparative videos between the 1980s effort, and Google Street view.

Domesday project used laserdisk. It was revived on the web but I think it has rotted again. In 100 years the old Google data will likely have rotted or be hidden.

@@stevecarter8810 There's still a copy on the Web, though the official anniversary Website is no-more, and copies of the laserdiscs are held by the copyright libraries, Computer History Museum, Museum of Computer History, ... if not necessarily a requisite SCSI interfaced LaserDisc player, and a suitable computer system to access the player. The street view footage was captured from VHS cameras, complemented by film stills, and the maps scanned from the paper OS copies then around, but it's UK Street View footage from 1984-85, and published in 1986. Which is more years, than I have fingers and toes, before the first Google release.

There's still a copy on the Web, though the official anniversary Website is no-more, and copies of the laserdiscs are held by the copyright libraries, Computer History Museum, Museum of Computer History, ... if not necessarily a requisite SCSI interfaced LaserDisc player, and a suitable computer system to access the player, so the data will remain in the Public Domain. The street view footage was captured from VHS cameras, complemented by film stills, and the maps scanned from the paper OS copies then around, but it's UK Street View footage from 1984-85, and published in 1986. Which is more years, than I have fingers and toes, before the first Google release.

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@@tsampoySP my high score on the classic world map is 24.2k

i swear i have seen you before. 💀

​@@RealMatthewMorganIf you're in the BeamNG community, you likely have

I believe it and I know I have. I was blocked from Google earth a couple times because of "suspicious amounts of traffic" from my IP. It was funny and I included a screenshot of that when I applied to be a Google earth employee. Didn't get the job tho

That’s so weird

Australia's satellite updated Last month and December 2023... It was previously 2019 cameras (Great Example is the M1 Pacific Motorway Upgrarde, look unfinished when in reality it was fully finished)

I think someone in Australia is paying google, because the maps normally have very recent satellite imagery (which I think is actually aerial imagery from aircraft) and the street view gets updated every few months in some places.

the bik trail part was developed in collaboration with the TU Delft for the Dutch marked as here bike trails/roads are really everywhere and it really helps navigating them.

You mean....literally the point of mapping?

I need to check out the American 🇺🇸 Tobacco Trail in my area

GoogleCrackview Youllcowards dont even smoke crack

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The house I lived in from 2013-2018 (in a suburb of Phoenix) was nothing but a concrete foundation (Google street view from 2012) until some time in 2024. Double checking it just now for this comment was actually the first time I'd ever seen the house in street view.

Oh wait it shows the dates. So previously the street view was from May 2011, and now it's from February 2024

My road in Wisconsin still hasn’t gotten covered yet. But Wisconsin is just different.

This is like the city my s/o is from. They haven’t updated it since 2007 but it’s not super rural

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hi geography master! :D

Needs more subs

Mine is just 2012 so yea

Mine town didnt update on google street view like 7 years and my street isnt even fully covered

mine goes back to 2009 a lot has changed some of the billboards and cars that were still around look downright retro

@@belstar1128 Welp, you have an even better time machiene

@@promaster424 there are multiple streets in my neighborhood that will go between Apr. 2023, 2012, and Aug. 2007 within 100 ft. It's kinda strange to see some of the houses just appear, completely change color, or just show signs of life. Not to mention the fact that the 2007 coverage looks completely dead. It's like they took the saturation and turned it down 50%.

Same as my neighborhood in west Cary, NC

My entire neighborhood has google street coverage from July 2009

Street view history would be better, I haven't found a way to scroll between times so far. (using gmaps)

I agree

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18:08 He's rotating the globe in the wrong direction.

@@B3Band What does this have to do with the original comment

@@B3Band Bruh you commented the same thing like 3 times, who asked?

It definitely does and will be more so in 20 years from now

In parts of Switzerland we haven’t gotten an update since 2013

don't worry about it

@@callmeoceanman XD

Thanks 🙏

@@PraveenSrJ01 i love 2008 street view! It makes me remember better times🙏

It would be nice to explore google maps in 1997 in 2024

My neighborhood only goes back to 2009 but its still neat

It’s funny this is still happening, as it was a quirk back when I was in high school. That 300 or 301 is a quirk while all of RU-vid’s cache servers around the world catch up. I think Tom Scott did a video on it if you’re interested.

now it has 11k

@@rrq Now it has 21k.

Now it has 900k

No issue for a blood sucking corporation like google

I’m turning 41 this October and definitely remember blockbuster videos of the 1990s

Really cool 🆒 but nothing beats actually being there in person 🧍‍♀️

death 😂

Bro?

Juvenoia :( Let me live my little life

Whats ..wrong with the current street view ?

Bro? Thought? Yeah we know that's not possible.

@@I_Am_Your_Problem no by the video quality and stuff

ur mom lives in San Francisco

Yeah, and it wasn't terrible back then

@@viktorakhmedov3442 was there any need for that lol tf did i say for you to reply with that

im sure you love this video dont you. cant imagine why.

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@@jr2904 agreed

Yuck, a pro Islamist

Cringe pfp

I’m originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a suburb called monroeville

Intresting, my cul-de-sac only has street view coverage from July 2009. May 2012, and June 2014 and only recently, in September 2022 we got a new view of our house.

yeah I think they get overloaded by them LED's

2:32 omg i wrote the comment even before starting to watch the video. im so damn hyped brah

I remember life actually before the internet 🛜 as someone born in 1983