Google Earth now lets you view historical imagery, allowing users to view images dating back to 80 years, with the Maps app also gaining some new features.
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Based on some hidden deprecation messages found in the latest version of the Google Street View app, it seems like the app will be killed off soon. The functionality will live on, though.
This guide will show you how to access Street View's image archive. The feature is not new but Google has hidden it away so you may not have known the functionality to view older images was there.
Googe has released an update for the Street View app for Android, allowing users to record pictures of streets and locations to update the Street View imagery provided by Google Maps.
With Environmental Insights Explorer, Google will be analyzing global mapping data to estimate building and transportation carbon emissions and renewable energy potential to help fight climate change.
Google has introduced Tour Creator, a virtual reality content creation tool meant to let students and educators produce a professional-level VR content to take virtual tours to different places.
Google has been denied permission to expand its Street View service in India by the government, which, in the past, has cited security concerns that come with making its topographical data public.
In our weekly science round-up, we look at gravitational and quantum anomalies detected in Weyl semimetals, flyover movies of Pluto and its moon, and a robot that can find tiny water leaks in pipes.
If you've ever wished you could float around the International Space Station, Google might just have made your dreams come true, to some extent, with the latest update to its Street View today.
It's tough to remember the world without Google's Street View. The feature has made things much easier when navigating, but has also opened access to remote locations from around the world.
Google's Street View service has failed to get approval to expand in India. The government is blocking Google's requests amid national security concerns and lack of control over data.
An SUV with roof-mounted licence plate-scanning cameras, crudely disguised as a Google Maps Street View car, was spotted in Philadelphia this week - and the police department has admitted it's theirs.
After a years of mapping streets around the world, Google has turned its Street View technology to help scientists measure and assess changes in climate and impacts upon the environment.
Google has released a new feature for its Street View service, which lets a user explore the deepest parts of the ocean. It is a reportedly a move to inform people about the oceans' importance.
Google is attempting to increase culture around the world by mapping musueums using robots similar to "Street View" cars. These robots must be vain, as they're taking a lot of selfies in the musuems.
After spotting a Google Street View car approaching, a British man decided to stage a fake 'murder' scene to be caught on cam - but a concerned user called the cops after seeing it online.
Google has announced a new feature in Street View, using which the users can now revisit certain locations and see the changes that took place there over time in the Google Maps application.
If you ever thought Street View was something you couldn't manipulate and contribute to Google Maps, wonder no more. Google has now made it possible to create your own Street View experiences.
Google is back in the news regarding its Street cars and data collecting practises, this time in Brazil where a massive investigation is underway due to possible government data snooping by the NSA.
Google's controversial street view cars are in hot water once again as a driver smashed into two vehicles, moments after an earlier incident he had fled. Police have since released him from custody.
German regulators have fined Google €145,000 ($189,230) over the company's previous practice of collecting data via the WiFi antennas for Google's Street View cars.
Google Maps has updated its Street View images to show what it is like on some of the world's tallest mountain peaks, including Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro and more.
Google is approaching a settlement over Wi-Fi data tapping, being forced to cough up $7 million to some 30 U.S. states.
Google has now posted up new photos on its Google Maps blog that prove one of its Street View photo cars did not run over a stray donkey in the country of Botswana.
Did a Google Street View car run over a donkey in Botswana? The images seem to imply so, but Google denies it. How long before PETA gets involved and starts publicly protesting the search giant?
Google has announced it has launched a massive update of its Street View feature in Google Maps, offering updated ground level images of over 250,000 miles of roads.
Google has announced that it has finally added the Street View map feature for people who access Google Maps on mobile web browsers, including iOS's Safari browser.
Google has publicly admitted that it has not deleted all of the Street View data it collected in the UK and other European countries in 2010, as it promised to do.
Forget Google's Street View for the road! The company has released new panoramic images of the South Pole and several 'landmarks' on our southern most continent.
The Federal Communications Commission has recommended that Google be fined just $25,000 for allegedly blocking the FCC's investigation of Google's WiFi data storing policies.
Google's method of obtaining info for its Street View feature in Google Maps has also had a fairly scary side effect. According to a story at CNet's News.com, the cars that are used by Google...
Microsoft, Google, and AOL are the subjects of a lawsuit from a company that claims the three defendants violated the patents of its 3D mapping software. Bloomberg reports that Transcenic filed the lawsuit earlier this...
A Japanese woman is suing Google over a revealing Street View image, according to a report out of The Telegraph UK. The unidentified woman is asking for 600,000 Yen (US$7163) due to psychological distress caused...
Respecting ones privacy is something that Google has always said it enforced with public data. Despite its notable slip ups, one thing Google has allowed users to do is to opt out of its popular...
Google has been under investigation for the past couple of months for 'accidentally' stealing WiFi data on its Google Street View cars. The cars were designed to take snapshots of streets to help improve its...
According to the UK's Information Commissioner Office (ICO), Google did not collect any personal details when collecting data from wifi networks for their location based services. Google was cleared of the charges after the ICO...
Microsoft researchers have developed a tool to enhance the current street view functionality of Bing Streetside. In a typical street view implementation, a sense of “being there” is accomplished by putting photos side by side...
Google has announced it will resume capturing images for its Street View service next week, after a scandal which saw private data accidentally captured by rogue code and left the search giant red-faced as privacy...
A nursery worker from Uckfield, East Sussex has turned into an internet sensation after flashing her bra at a Google street view camera. The moment was caught and published onto Google's Street View service in the...
Google has relaxed its opposition to European regulators and will hand over the open wireless network data it collected from its Street View cars over the past three years. Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt,...
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