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Google Earth Adds Historical Street View for 20th Anniversary

Building on Google Maps’ 2024 rollout, the feature brings decades of street-level images to the globe.

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Overview

  • Historical Street View imagery is now available in Google Earth’s web and mobile apps, offering users a timeline of locations from the present back up to eight decades in some areas.
  • The new feature integrates bird’s-eye and street-level views, allowing virtual time travel through landmarks in cities such as Paris, Berlin and Las Vegas.
  • Google Earth Pro will gain Gemini-powered AI-driven insights in the coming weeks, enabling natural-language queries on tree canopy coverage, land surface temperatures and other geospatial data.
  • The update responds to a #somewhereonGoogleMaps trend that saw users revisiting past views of their neighborhoods on Google Maps.
  • Since its 2005 debut and rapid early growth, Google Earth has supported research, education and urban planning with billions of annual searches and a library of aerial, satellite and 3D imagery.