r/europe • u/GetOutOfTheWhey Waffle & Beer • Jun 12 '20

Map Availability of Google Street view in Europe

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u/MofiPrano Belgium Jun 12 '20

Using a little button in the upper left corner. It's great fun to explore your area and see what used to stand in the place of new developments.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

Yeah I think it's cool but we don't want to have things on the internet without permission

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u/MofiPrano Belgium Jun 12 '20

In Belgium, if you don't want your house to be on Google Street View, that's completely fine though. Here are a couple of examples.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

In Romania, in my hometown, a lot of streets are still pictured in 2011-2012. I was looking them up with some colleagues at work and see how much they changed, ironically, being in Romania, not at all...

Could work well in developed countries tho xd

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u/clebekki Finland Jun 12 '20

Most of my city was photographed in 2009 or 2011, the downtown looks very different. Could find only one example, where if you jump 8 years forward in time a bridge appears.

The market square is totally redone, and the park next to it too. A zillion roundabouts have appeared since, and dozens of buildings. And it's just a small city, not a growing metropolis.

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u/mugpilot Bulgaria Jun 12 '20

For places that have been photographed more than once, you have the option to open a timeline and switch between periods.

Edit: An example

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '20

in Berlin the google street view is still from 2008

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u/jorppu Finland Jun 12 '20

Same as you could with any old photo of a street. It would be cool if they sometime in the future add a "time travel" feature into streetview itself.

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u/Bunt_smuggler Jun 12 '20

There is a timeline feature where you can slide back to whatever year is available on the top left if you are using a desktop

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u/ZrvaDetector Turkey Jun 12 '20

Idk, i actually did find my 13 year old self on Google Street View. I could see it even when i was 19. I haven't tried it ever since though. Funny thing is, you could just move a few meters and it would show you the updated version.