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.