Google Street View now lets you ‘time travel’ on your phone

Street View is also testing a new camera that is said to help Google and its partners capture images of more places like remote islands, tops of mountains, and local towns as well as images of traditionally under-mapped areas like the Amazon jungle.

Google maps Street view will now enable users to time travel on their phones and see the historical imagery of a place and how it evolved with time.

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“Starting today on Android and iOS globally, it’s now easier than ever to travel back in time right from your phone,” Ethan Russell, Director of Product, Google Maps said in a blog on Tuesday.

To avail the feature, users can tap anywhere on the photo of a place to see information about the location while viewing the Street View imagery of that place.

Then they can tap “See more dates” to see the historical imagery of that place published, dating back to when Street View launched in 2007.

Users can browse each of the images to see a digital time capsule that shows how a place has changed to its current form, Google said in the blog.

Street View is also testing a new camera that is said to help Google and its partners capture images of more places like remote islands, tops of mountains, and local towns as well as images of traditionally under-mapped areas like the Amazon jungle.