I genuinely appreciate that Google keeps all of the old coverage available to view whenever you want (at least in the US). Those time capsules are important.
Google maps streetview is groundbreaking in terms if capturing history. Can you imagine how it would feel in a hundred years to look back at these images?
There was an exercise in the UK, back the 1980s, called the Domesday Project, that did something similar with stills from VHS footage. There are comparative videos between the 1980s effort, and Google Street view.
Domesday project used laserdisk. It was revived on the web but I think it has rotted again. In 100 years the old Google data will likely have rotted or be hidden.
@@stevecarter8810 There's still a copy on the Web, though the official anniversary Website is no-more, and copies of the laserdiscs are held by the copyright libraries, Computer History Museum, Museum of Computer History, ... if not necessarily a requisite SCSI interfaced LaserDisc player, and a suitable computer system to access the player. The street view footage was captured from VHS cameras, complemented by film stills, and the maps scanned from the paper OS copies then around, but it's UK Street View footage from 1984-85, and published in 1986. Which is more years, than I have fingers and toes, before the first Google release.
There's still a copy on the Web, though the official anniversary Website is no-more, and copies of the laserdiscs are held by the copyright libraries, Computer History Museum, Museum of Computer History, ... if not necessarily a requisite SCSI interfaced LaserDisc player, and a suitable computer system to access the player, so the data will remain in the Public Domain. The street view footage was captured from VHS cameras, complemented by film stills, and the maps scanned from the paper OS copies then around, but it's UK Street View footage from 1984-85, and published in 1986. Which is more years, than I have fingers and toes, before the first Google release.
I believe it and I know I have. I was blocked from Google earth a couple times because of "suspicious amounts of traffic" from my IP. It was funny and I included a screenshot of that when I applied to be a Google earth employee. Didn't get the job tho
I love the fact now that the Google camera is now doing photo shots of bike trails and waterways. This really really helps me in deciding whether or not I want to navigate a specific waterway or bike trail.
the bik trail part was developed in collaboration with the TU Delft for the Dutch marked as here bike trails/roads are really everywhere and it really helps navigating them.
the biggest joke here in the Netherlands is that street view is so often redone that you can see the development from a new building being built with in a short time. on the other hand google maps satellite shots are from 2010. some entire neighbourhoods and roads don't exist on the satellite image.
Australia's satellite updated Last month and December 2023... It was previously 2019 cameras (Great Example is the M1 Pacific Motorway Upgrarde, look unfinished when in reality it was fully finished)
I think someone in Australia is paying google, because the maps normally have very recent satellite imagery (which I think is actually aerial imagery from aircraft) and the street view gets updated every few months in some places.
The house I lived in from 2013-2018 (in a suburb of Phoenix) was nothing but a concrete foundation (Google street view from 2012) until some time in 2024. Double checking it just now for this comment was actually the first time I'd ever seen the house in street view.
My town is kinda weird on google maps. Every two photos it shifts from March 2012 to May 2024 and I can go back and forth in time and see everything that changed
@@promaster424 there are multiple streets in my neighborhood that will go between Apr. 2023, 2012, and Aug. 2007 within 100 ft. It's kinda strange to see some of the houses just appear, completely change color, or just show signs of life. Not to mention the fact that the 2007 coverage looks completely dead. It's like they took the saturation and turned it down 50%.
I still remember if you go onto street view and switch it back to 2007 at my old house (ironically the house right next door to the one I live in now) you can see a giant stork in the front yard because I had been just born
The oldest capture of my house is from March 2009, what’s really changed in 15 years was mine and my neighbours gates that’s it and I’ve lived in the same house since 2014
One of my favorite things to do is explore Street View in VR with the dedicated VR app that they have on Steam. It's integrated really well. I'm so grateful that Google decided to embark on this HUGE project for everyone.
Google Earth fandom waiting for and being excited for new drops like a videogame update was not something I expected but has made me very happy to know exists
When street view first started, they worked with a company called immersive media and google used really high quality cameras for the street view. All the high quality 2007 street views have been deleted and they instead used the low quality one we all know.
being from romania and also being incredibly addicted to transportation history i more often than not use google street view history for looking at abandoned railways or bus/tram depots. the older coverage really helps out in finding more obscure details about places and it's overall a much more reliable source than just word of mouth from my parents or grandparents. gotta love it
Being from Miami, I like to look at the Google street view of it from 2007 just to remind me how it used to be. The grainy picture quality also gives it a nostalgic feel. My only wish is it went back further into the early 2000s and 90s.
Google maps and street view has saved my ass so many times it's crazy. I drive very tall trucks and verify any bridges along the way have enough clearance using street view because that kind of data really isn't elsewhere
I’ve always wondered why the camera quality varied so much around the world. This video was exactly what I was waiting for! However, I wish you had gone into more detail about each camera, perhaps providing their specs and what sets them apart. Otherwise, it was a great video-thanks for compiling everything and making it entertaining!
In the US my favorites are from 2011-2016. Maybe it’s the nostalgia but the pictures look and feel so warm. The 2023 coverage has great resolution though
I'm happy I was the age to grow up with Google Streetview documenting the history of my city, seeing the Blockbuster, the Taco Bell that was around since my mom was in her 20s, what was befkre the local Target, the landscape befire all the Student housing showed up for the college. So much history wiped away, but not forgotten thanks to Google 2007 Streetview.
14:45 this happened because when 2015 coverage got published, people didn't really like others peeking into their houses so they had to lower their camera when they came back. The quality is weird because there are a few snapshots taken in different months and one was taken in the rainy season while the other one was taken in the dry season. The dry season is over exposed while the other is under exposed
If time travel ever existed, think about how cool it would be if the google cars could go back in time and we could see the development of any place in the world over time right from our phones.
Google Maps is one of the best things about the internet age. Lost so many hours just 'travelling' to places I either planned beforehand or just sight seeing.
My street jumped from 2009 to 2023. My grandparents and their old dog were in the 2009 footage, they were working on the olives they picked and it's very special to me. My grandmother has passed away and this is their only presence on the internet and, of course, their old dog that I named when I was younger. I hope this doesn't get lost, it's a part of me.
The lower quality cameras stayed in the US mostly until like 2009, especially in rural areas. There's places near me, which is mostly farmland, that have street view from May 2009, and it looks worse than some of the 2007 images.
Great video! Something is up with some of the frames though when you're showing google maps streetview -- they're like flashes of solid colours like red, orange, green, and I think some others. E.g. there's 3 of them just between 9:00 and 9:10, it's pretty distracting for me, but was still great to learn about this topic, and I feel inspired to explore more of google maps street view!
Thank you for explaining why India's street view looked so bad. I always wondered what what caused such a drop in quality, now understood that it was shot like that.
Street view is a game changer. I can travel to another city in another State and drive all around without making any wrong turns. It's like I've been there before.....because I have, using Street View. Street view has probably saved countless lives by preventing accidents.
its crazy to think how much this endeavour must cost. the car itself is already a pretty penny considering the mileage, the driver, the cameras and last but not least fuel and maintenance. not to forget about storage and server uptime.
finally someone who's geography entusiasm came from geoguessr! same as me! always camping on virtualstreets posts hehe :P you share my frustrations on new bad coverage!
Most street view in random areas are still in 2007. They put so much effort in one year and just updated every year from then. They should do the street view everywhere again instead of one city in 2027
17:58 regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina, yeah, they are getting street view coverage, albeit only in 2 cities, the capital Sarajevo, and a small city nearby called Visoko (visoko is the place that has the Bosnian pyramids) so yeah
13:27 I got caught by a google street view car in late July 2023 ( around the 26 or 27 July I believe) by 12 August the pictures of me were published. But a week later they were removed and replaced by August 2023 photos! And no you can’t go back to see them. Also interesting enough that street wasn’t updated since 2012 until May 2023 street view images which got replaced by July 2023 images and then August 2023 images. And now you can’t see any the May and July 2023 images on streets view, luckily I managed to get screenshots of me.
Intresting, my cul-de-sac only has street view coverage from July 2009. May 2012, and June 2014 and only recently, in September 2022 we got a new view of our house.
Nice and comprehensive work! This is gonna be a good resource to return to! Never knew India ended up with that much coverage. Such a shame half of it is blurred and the other half is so grainy!
street view is so useful, it's like a new way of interacting with maps, when i search for a place i don't even look at it from the aerial map view, it's so much easier to get spacial awareness when you see the building at street level, it's such an ingenious invention that i take for granted that would be very annoying to live without.
I love Google Earth street view, it feels like I’m virtually driving on the road and the older photos from 2007, 2008 and early 2009 were blurry. In late 2009 the street view got more clearer and in HD B&V is always slow and blurry.
No all of 2009 images era were also blurry, I think 2010 and later it’s when it got cleaner, some the 2009 images are kinda blurry aswell when I click on a road that we’re in middle of nowhere, like clicking a track road to going to Boise Idaho and seems like all the images are blur
@@starman9458in October 2009, the location of the streetview was also blurry, located at Mountain City Hwy Elko, Nevada, but it got an upgrade of June 2024 was taken
Back when Google Earth published pics taken by those who had been there and pinned their location with the pic. OMG I got to see the inside of pyramids, ruins of Pompeii, museums and castles - breathtaking!! I also met some wonderful folks (those who had taken the photos) and made great friends all via email! Alas, those days of traveling around the world vicariously are long gone. However, at least I can still go driving around town all over the world so that's fantastic! Thanks! ❣
Nicely done! I can say for certain that Google had street view in Tokyo before May of 2009. I traveled to Japan and that time, and I actually used to help find my hotel.
Alaskan here, long time Anchorage resident: at 12:50, when you're looking north on C street, on the left in that green building, you can still see the outline of "Consulado de Mexico" -- i could be wrong, but i highly doubt that street view was taken in 2019. That consulate closed in Nov 2015. I'm pretty sure that was cleaned up before 2019, kinda like you can see in the current street view (at least i can).
I noticed that since 2019 Street View looks awful in tunnels, previously it was a bit dark but still visible and now there's a bright yellow tint all over the image. You can clearly see the difference in the Eisenhower-Johnson tunnels in Colorado but there are countless examples around the world.
In the Philippines, 90 % of some coverage have Street View, including in Palawan, Marinduque, Romblon, etc. but the rest are doesn’t have coverage mostly in Sulu Archipelago
It’s funny this is still happening, as it was a quirk back when I was in high school. That 300 or 301 is a quirk while all of RUclips’s cache servers around the world catch up. I think Tom Scott did a video on it if you’re interested.
wow. i remember being 6 and messing with street view. little did I know that it was the combination of me being born in 2001 in denver that this was possible! A lot of areas, especially in the foothills, are all still from 2007. additionally, we should talk more about the history view in google earth! my area has old maps and plane-based photographs from the 1950s, even!
I'm a weirdo that just loves to browse street view. As a delivery driver in the UK it's a brilliant tool to scope out a delivery destination, the width of the road and turn around points. In the UK we have crappy little roads that are barely wide enough for a car never mind a truck.
3:11 I like how he shows all the countries that got coverage that year, showing some spectacular views that could easily be taken from a photographer, and then he mentions Greece and shows some ghetto some road with deteriorating houses.
Wrong, Mexico already had some coverage by 2007 using gen 1. Gen 2 came by 2008-2009. Theres still some remaining 2007-2008 pictures in Baja California, but seems that google erased most of it.
2:31 I knew there will be a special part in this video for Germany even this is not the whole story. A German politician also made a joke claiming that Google will also take pictures through your windows to show the inside of your house. Many people thought this was true and... you can imagine the rest of the story since Germans really care about their privacy (despite knowing/acceping that Google, facebook etc already know everything about us). The story of Street View in Germany could be big enough for an extra video. Greetings from Germany. 🤣😅
Yeah, Germans have become kind of stupid and slow-to-change when it comes to technology. What is the problem when you can see the house from the street in real life too? There should be no privacy concern whatsoever. Faces and license plates are blurred. Fortunately they have finally joined the streetview countries.
I had a gap from 2007, a year road work was being done, to 2019, another year road work was being done. I couldn't see my street in normal condition until last year.
For some reason the latest street view in the Houston area have a foggy look to them. They also appear to be removing some of the years on street view.
I've always wondered when the first Street View ever appeared on Google Maps, because every time I check on it, the oldest Street View images I can find are mostly from 2007
because of law street view of germany was completly new done around 2 years ago. before that there were only images from 2008 of major cities because of privacy law back than. because google set it up new so the old sues werent available anymore. but now all the old images are gone :(. and there is no different time available. I mean there is a private company which memoriezes the WHOLE COUNTRY and they pay for it and its available for everyone for free. it would love to view places here at different times and it will never be possible to catch that missing time again...
Do you know about the first prototype mapping system similar to Street View, filmed in 1978 in Aspen, Colorado? It was a project by MIT called "Aspen Movie Map", which used 16mm film cameras strapped to a vehicle, then the video images were stored on Laserdiscs.
I look at street view every now and then and see what changed. So cool to see what changed over the years. The lowest years is about 2007, it’s still cool to compare what it used to look like.
I ended up looking up my street in google maps after I watched this to see what the road I live on looked like 11 years ago. My dad told me not long ago about how he would burn tired up and down the road and sure enough there was the tire marks that he left up and down the road, and there was his 1980's monte carlo that he had at the time. I was 5 so I don't remember him flying up and down the road with it, but I sure remember the car. Good memories
Street view makes a big difference in my work. I live in the UK and as many will know, parking here is inescapably crap. I very often look at street view to see possible parking spots where I have to go. It's been invaluable
This video inspired me to use google maps to explore places i used to live and schools i used to go to, i went to opequon elemetary (its fine, i dont live anywhere near that now and my name has changed since lol), but i look there now and even the earliest i can see they had a whole new housing development built there after i left, which idk, is just wild! it kinda kills the nostalgia tho. but also somewhat, theres things i remember that bring me back so idk. other places i visited of my childhood kept a lot of the nostalgia, even looking back on the pre 2010s views where they existed, and thats fun as it gets to see. im so glad google street view kept all the versions, bc it really holds a place in my heart in some of these views, as silly as that might be to say
I enjoy looking back on my childhood street using the street view and seeing the Karate Dojo that was there that I can vividly remember even though I was only 3 before it was replaced with a Laundromat
I genuinely appreciate that Google keeps all of the old coverage available to view whenever you want (at least in the US). Those time capsules are important.
Fun fact - Old coverage usage used to dress the street view marker up as Dr. Emmet Brown (Back to the Future)
Imagine in the future looking back at the images captured in 2007 and how different things like the traffic will look. It will be like time travel!!
No, they aren't. Shut up.
It's worldwide available.
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Google maps streetview is groundbreaking in terms if capturing history. Can you imagine how it would feel in a hundred years to look back at these images?
I do imagine things like that often it's cool. I also think it would be cool to find a snickers wrapper in some dirt like 250 years from now
There was an exercise in the UK, back the 1980s, called the Domesday Project, that did something similar with stills from VHS footage. There are comparative videos between the 1980s effort, and Google Street view.
Domesday project used laserdisk. It was revived on the web but I think it has rotted again.
In 100 years the old Google data will likely have rotted or be hidden.
@@stevecarter8810 There's still a copy on the Web, though the official anniversary Website is no-more, and copies of the laserdiscs are held by the copyright libraries, Computer History Museum, Museum of Computer History, ... if not necessarily a requisite SCSI interfaced LaserDisc player, and a suitable computer system to access the player. The street view footage was captured from VHS cameras, complemented by film stills, and the maps scanned from the paper OS copies then around, but it's UK Street View footage from 1984-85, and published in 1986. Which is more years, than I have fingers and toes, before the first Google release.
There's still a copy on the Web, though the official anniversary Website is no-more, and copies of the laserdiscs are held by the copyright libraries, Computer History Museum, Museum of Computer History, ... if not necessarily a requisite SCSI interfaced LaserDisc player, and a suitable computer system to access the player, so the data will remain in the Public Domain. The street view footage was captured from VHS cameras, complemented by film stills, and the maps scanned from the paper OS copies then around, but it's UK Street View footage from 1984-85, and published in 1986. Which is more years, than I have fingers and toes, before the first Google release.
I dig looking at how houses in my neighborhood looked in 2008
My entire neighborhood has google street coverage from July 2009
Mine goes all the way to 2007
We cut down all the trees and aren't planting new ones in their place. We're planting mall succulent planters in their place wtfff
My dad’s house has a street view from May of 2019, but it was before we moved in.
You can see my dad receiving a package from the postman outside in one of the earlier captures (2008 or 2011)
i swear i have more hours just looking around on street view than i do on any game 💀
Geoguessr is calling for you
@@tsampoySP my high score on the classic world map is 24.2k
i swear i have seen you before. 💀
@@mashleymorganIf you're in the BeamNG community, you likely have
I believe it and I know I have. I was blocked from Google earth a couple times because of "suspicious amounts of traffic" from my IP. It was funny and I included a screenshot of that when I applied to be a Google earth employee. Didn't get the job tho
I love the fact now that the Google camera is now doing photo shots of bike trails and waterways. This really really helps me in deciding whether or not I want to navigate a specific waterway or bike trail.
the bik trail part was developed in collaboration with the TU Delft for the Dutch marked as here bike trails/roads are really everywhere and it really helps navigating them.
You mean....literally the point of mapping?
I need to check out the American 🇺🇸 Tobacco Trail in my area
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Youllcowards dont even smoke crack
the biggest joke here in the Netherlands is that street view is so often redone that you can see the development from a new building being built with in a short time.
on the other hand google maps satellite shots are from 2010.
some entire neighbourhoods and roads don't exist on the satellite image.
That’s so weird
Australia's satellite updated Last month and December 2023... It was previously 2019 cameras (Great Example is the M1 Pacific Motorway Upgrarde, look unfinished when in reality it was fully finished)
I think someone in Australia is paying google, because the maps normally have very recent satellite imagery (which I think is actually aerial imagery from aircraft) and the street view gets updated every few months in some places.
Clicked a random road annndd was done 2 months ago
I live there and my town only had coverage in 2009..
Love looking at my town back in 2007 and seeing all the changes it had
Same as my neighborhood in west Cary, NC
@@PraveenSrJ01NC spotted wooo
@@PraveenSrJ01same my neighborhoods were from LA south Van ness 6th street
The fact that there’s some roads where no one has captured street view in almost 17 years seems strange. I guess they are quite isolated though
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The house I lived in from 2013-2018 (in a suburb of Phoenix) was nothing but a concrete foundation (Google street view from 2012) until some time in 2024. Double checking it just now for this comment was actually the first time I'd ever seen the house in street view.
Oh wait it shows the dates. So previously the street view was from May 2011, and now it's from February 2024
My road in Wisconsin still hasn’t gotten covered yet. But Wisconsin is just different.
This is like the city my s/o is from. They haven’t updated it since 2007 but it’s not super rural
My town is kinda weird on google maps. Every two photos it shifts from March 2012 to May 2024 and I can go back and forth in time and see everything that changed
Mine is just 2012 so yea
Mine town didnt update on google street view like 7 years and my street isnt even fully covered
mine goes back to 2009 a lot has changed some of the billboards and cars that were still around look downright retro
@@belstar1128 Welp, you have an even better time machiene
@@promaster424 there are multiple streets in my neighborhood that will go between Apr. 2023, 2012, and Aug. 2007 within 100 ft. It's kinda strange to see some of the houses just appear, completely change color, or just show signs of life. Not to mention the fact that the 2007 coverage looks completely dead. It's like they took the saturation and turned it down 50%.
I still remember if you go onto street view and switch it back to 2007 at my old house (ironically the house right next door to the one I live in now) you can see a giant stork in the front yard because I had been just born
I need to see this.
Is there any way you can send a link? As you no longer live there?
@@Scoped21He mentioned he still lives to the house immediately next to the house he was born in. Maybe pay better attention to what you read.
The oldest capture of my house is from March 2009, what’s really changed in 15 years was mine and my neighbours gates that’s it and I’ve lived in the same house since 2014
@@sunshineimperials1600 damn who hurt you
One of my favorite things to do is explore Street View in VR with the dedicated VR app that they have on Steam. It's integrated really well. I'm so grateful that Google decided to embark on this HUGE project for everyone.
Fantastic video Oceanman
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Needs more subs
Its kinda annoying if you see some streets that are not covered in your village
*HURRR*
Google Earth fandom waiting for and being excited for new drops like a videogame update was not something I expected but has made me very happy to know exists
When street view first started, they worked with a company called immersive media and google used really high quality cameras for the street view. All the high quality 2007 street views have been deleted and they instead used the low quality one we all know.
I remember looking at San Francisco street view in 2007, the licence plates and faces were very clear.
REALLY? That's a bit scummy that they did that. Would've been nice to keep.
@@idkwhtname2choose they should've archived them instead, no wonder they're blurry theses days
being from romania and also being incredibly addicted to transportation history i more often than not use google street view history for looking at abandoned railways or bus/tram depots. the older coverage really helps out in finding more obscure details about places and it's overall a much more reliable source than just word of mouth from my parents or grandparents. gotta love it
Being from Miami, I like to look at the Google street view of it from 2007 just to remind me how it used to be. The grainy picture quality also gives it a nostalgic feel. My only wish is it went back further into the early 2000s and 90s.
I wish they would bring back the 2011 camera the new camera looks weird
@@SagePerkins-e5f Not even that. Some places have gone from bad to worse with overdevelopment.
all the full-screen colours flashing throughout the video when cutting between different street views, I feel like I'm being subliminally programmed!
Google maps and street view has saved my ass so many times it's crazy. I drive very tall trucks and verify any bridges along the way have enough clearance using street view because that kind of data really isn't elsewhere
I use it to check for overhead clearance with trees when hauling cars.
I’ve always wondered why the camera quality varied so much around the world. This video was exactly what I was waiting for! However, I wish you had gone into more detail about each camera, perhaps providing their specs and what sets them apart. Otherwise, it was a great video-thanks for compiling everything and making it entertaining!
In the US my favorites are from 2011-2016. Maybe it’s the nostalgia but the pictures look and feel so warm. The 2023 coverage has great resolution though
That’s so true tho🥲
I'm happy I was the age to grow up with Google Streetview documenting the history of my city, seeing the Blockbuster, the Taco Bell that was around since my mom was in her 20s, what was befkre the local Target, the landscape befire all the Student housing showed up for the college. So much history wiped away, but not forgotten thanks to Google 2007 Streetview.
I’m turning 41 this October and definitely remember blockbuster videos of the 1990s
16:17 I believe that is the road that Rainbolt was captured on - nice easter egg !
18:08 He's rotating the globe in the wrong direction.
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What does this have to do with the original comment
@@B3Band Bruh you commented the same thing like 3 times, who asked?
It wasn’t long ago when one could see the pre collapse 35W bridge in Minneapolis. They removed that street view though.
14:45 this happened because when 2015 coverage got published, people didn't really like others peeking into their houses so they had to lower their camera when they came back. The quality is weird because there are a few snapshots taken in different months and one was taken in the rainy season while the other one was taken in the dry season. The dry season is over exposed while the other is under exposed
If time travel ever existed, think about how cool it would be if the google cars could go back in time and we could see the development of any place in the world over time right from our phones.
Google Maps is one of the best things about the internet age. Lost so many hours just 'travelling' to places I either planned beforehand or just sight seeing.
My street jumped from 2009 to 2023. My grandparents and their old dog were in the 2009 footage, they were working on the olives they picked and it's very special to me.
My grandmother has passed away and this is their only presence on the internet and, of course, their old dog that I named when I was younger.
I hope this doesn't get lost, it's a part of me.
Google could remove it at any point, so try screenshotting or downloading the panorama to be sure you can keep viewing it forever!
Google Street View coverage is important
Street view history would be better, I haven't found a way to scroll between times so far. (using gmaps)
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Fun and informative video! There are some distracting flashes of bright colors in a few scene transitions, but aside from that, lovely job!
Big ups for quality research vids
also Turkey really looks different 9:27
don't worry about it
@@callmeoceanman XD
The lower quality cameras stayed in the US mostly until like 2009, especially in rural areas. There's places near me, which is mostly farmland, that have street view from May 2009, and it looks worse than some of the 2007 images.
that van cofounded google? damn
Great video! Something is up with some of the frames though when you're showing google maps streetview -- they're like flashes of solid colours like red, orange, green, and I think some others. E.g. there's 3 of them just between 9:00 and 9:10, it's pretty distracting for me, but was still great to learn about this topic, and I feel inspired to explore more of google maps street view!
Thank you for explaining why India's street view looked so bad. I always wondered what what caused such a drop in quality, now understood that it was shot like that.
the gen 1 street view feels very nostalgic
It definitely does and will be more so in 20 years from now
They look very spooky on the mountain roads
@@geturassupandgogetajob YUP
Street view is a game changer. I can travel to another city in another State and drive all around without making any wrong turns. It's like I've been there before.....because I have, using Street View. Street view has probably saved countless lives by preventing accidents.
its crazy to think how much this endeavour must cost.
the car itself is already a pretty penny considering the mileage, the driver, the cameras and last but not least fuel and maintenance.
not to forget about storage and server uptime.
No issue for a blood sucking corporation like google
This was not a video I knew I needed until it was recommended. Great video dude!
Its always fun to explore my neighborhood in 2008 on google maps
It would be nice to explore google maps in 1997 in 2024
My neighborhood only goes back to 2009 but its still neat
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@@bothermenonemine only goes to 2013
I love looking at my town in 2008 and seeing how different it was
1:14 you forget mexico in tijuana we got 2007 street view
Very interesting video OceanMan. I always love to see a timeline of how something has evolved.
Gen 1 and 2 cameras are nostalgic to me lol
finally someone who's geography entusiasm came from geoguessr! same as me! always camping on virtualstreets posts hehe :P you share my frustrations on new bad coverage!
Most street view in random areas are still in 2007. They put so much effort in one year and just updated every year from then. They should do the street view everywhere again instead of one city in 2027
New drinking game! Take a sip every time he says "coverage"!
death 😂
That "almost 20 years" caught me off guard and punched me in the gut
My uncles place had been recently updated from it being from 2007, it was when he even had horses and his auto towing business running back then!
17:58 regarding Bosnia and Herzegovina, yeah, they are getting street view coverage, albeit only in 2 cities, the capital Sarajevo, and a small city nearby called Visoko (visoko is the place that has the Bosnian pyramids) so yeah
i have realized that south Korea hasn't had any new street view since 2018
In parts of Switzerland we haven’t gotten an update since 2013
South Korea gives better map data to it's own mapping services instead of google maps
@@dankrobin4965my house capture hadn’t been updated till 2022. The last capture was from 2009
probably due to them having their own map apps, although i used them when i went there and their street view is really bad lmao
My last street view was October 2022
13:27 I got caught by a google street view car in late July 2023 ( around the 26 or 27 July I believe) by 12 August the pictures of me were published. But a week later they were removed and replaced by August 2023 photos! And no you can’t go back to see them. Also interesting enough that street wasn’t updated since 2012 until May 2023 street view images which got replaced by July 2023 images and then August 2023 images. And now you can’t see any the May and July 2023 images on streets view, luckily I managed to get screenshots of me.
Intresting, my cul-de-sac only has street view coverage from July 2009. May 2012, and June 2014 and only recently, in September 2022 we got a new view of our house.
I drove one of those vehicles back in 2015 for two weeks and covered over 300 miles.
Google street view helps me so much with my job as an urban planner. Especially being able to look back on previous years of photos
It’s nice to see how Google cameras improved throughout the years
Nice and comprehensive work! This is gonna be a good resource to return to! Never knew India ended up with that much coverage. Such a shame half of it is blurred and the other half is so grainy!
ikr, so sad
street view is so useful, it's like a new way of interacting with maps, when i search for a place i don't even look at it from the aerial map view, it's so much easier to get spacial awareness when you see the building at street level, it's such an ingenious invention that i take for granted that would be very annoying to live without.
I love Google Earth street view, it feels like I’m virtually driving on the road and the older photos from 2007, 2008 and early 2009 were blurry. In late 2009 the street view got more clearer and in HD B&V is always slow and blurry.
No all of 2009 images era were also blurry, I think 2010 and later it’s when it got cleaner, some the 2009 images are kinda blurry aswell when I click on a road that we’re in middle of nowhere, like clicking a track road to going to Boise Idaho and seems like all the images are blur
@@Waylonmorrin4687 The images from early 2009 were blurry and at November they became more cleaner and clear.
@@starman9458in October 2009, the location of the streetview was also blurry, located at Mountain City Hwy Elko, Nevada, but it got an upgrade of June 2024 was taken
Criminally underrated video. 1k views for this is wild. keep it up bro
Bro?
Back when Google Earth published pics taken by those who had been there and pinned their location with the pic. OMG I got to see the inside of pyramids, ruins of Pompeii, museums and castles - breathtaking!! I also met some wonderful folks (those who had taken the photos) and made great friends all via email! Alas, those days of traveling around the world vicariously are long gone. However, at least I can still go driving around town all over the world so that's fantastic! Thanks! ❣
That's crazy, just finished this video and thought it was from some huge channel the entire time
Nicely done! I can say for certain that Google had street view in Tokyo before May of 2009. I traveled to Japan and that time, and I actually used to help find my hotel.
Alaskan here, long time Anchorage resident: at 12:50, when you're looking north on C street, on the left in that green building, you can still see the outline of "Consulado de Mexico" -- i could be wrong, but i highly doubt that street view was taken in 2019. That consulate closed in Nov 2015. I'm pretty sure that was cleaned up before 2019, kinda like you can see in the current street view (at least i can).
Man this video is so important because it’s of the history you put into it I like it
2009 also had some updated streetview around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I’m originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a suburb called monroeville
I noticed that since 2019 Street View looks awful in tunnels, previously it was a bit dark but still visible and now there's a bright yellow tint all over the image.
You can clearly see the difference in the Eisenhower-Johnson tunnels in Colorado but there are countless examples around the world.
yeah I think they get overloaded by them LED's
In the Philippines, 90 % of some coverage have Street View, including in Palawan, Marinduque, Romblon, etc. but the rest are doesn’t have coverage mostly in Sulu Archipelago
There is no way this video has only 300 views after a day. It's so good, it should have at least a few ten thousand, if not even a hundred thousand
It’s funny this is still happening, as it was a quirk back when I was in high school. That 300 or 301 is a quirk while all of RUclips’s cache servers around the world catch up. I think Tom Scott did a video on it if you’re interested.
now it has 11k
@@rrq Now it has 21k.
Now it has 900k
wow. i remember being 6 and messing with street view. little did I know that it was the combination of me being born in 2001 in denver that this was possible! A lot of areas, especially in the foothills, are all still from 2007.
additionally, we should talk more about the history view in google earth! my area has old maps and plane-based photographs from the 1950s, even!
I'm a weirdo that just loves to browse street view. As a delivery driver in the UK it's a brilliant tool to scope out a delivery destination, the width of the road and turn around points. In the UK we have crappy little roads that are barely wide enough for a car never mind a truck.
im sure you love this video dont you. cant imagine why.
Free palestine from hamas
@@jr2904 agreed
Yuck, a pro Islamist
Cringe pfp
New cameras have better quality but also they suck in tunnels. Also, starting from 2022, Google Maps is active all year round in Croatia
I'm still waiting for North Sentinel Island coverage!
There is a country where it now is illegal to Google Street View in it, but it has a 2008 coverage.
Germany it is!
Thanks 🙏
@@PraveenSrJ01 i love 2008 street view! It makes me remember better times🙏
Why illegal?
why are you flashbanging me with red between every cut
3:11 I like how he shows all the countries that got coverage that year, showing some spectacular views that could easily be taken from a photographer, and then he mentions Greece and shows some ghetto some road with deteriorating houses.
Wrong, Mexico already had some coverage by 2007 using gen 1. Gen 2 came by 2008-2009.
Theres still some remaining 2007-2008 pictures in Baja California, but seems that google erased most of it.
I honestly didn't know it started like that, wow...
2:31 I knew there will be a special part in this video for Germany even this is not the whole story. A German politician also made a joke claiming that Google will also take pictures through your windows to show the inside of your house. Many people thought this was true and... you can imagine the rest of the story since Germans really care about their privacy (despite knowing/acceping that Google, facebook etc already know everything about us). The story of Street View in Germany could be big enough for an extra video. Greetings from Germany. 🤣😅
Yeah, Germans have become kind of stupid and slow-to-change when it comes to technology. What is the problem when you can see the house from the street in real life too? There should be no privacy concern whatsoever. Faces and license plates are blurred. Fortunately they have finally joined the streetview countries.
I thought bro had like 100k subs... so underrated
Bro? Thought? Yeah we know that's not possible.
@@I_Am_Your_Problem no by the video quality and stuff
I do like the color feel of Gen 3 even if it’s slightly less quality than Gen 4. Gives me nostalgia for those summer feels.
This is some 250k subscriber type of content. Amazing job
how do you think those 250k channels get there? ;)
Up until just last year, the last time a Google street car drove past my house was 2011, lol
I had a gap from 2007, a year road work was being done, to 2019, another year road work was being done. I couldn't see my street in normal condition until last year.
My culdesac had a huge gap from june 2014-september 2022
For some reason the latest street view in the Houston area have a foggy look to them. They also appear to be removing some of the years on street view.
nothing hurts more than spotting a restaurant from 10 years ago on street view that you had erased in your memory and suddenly remember about it
2:29 I’m a Londoner and found out that some parts of London have pictures from 2008!
I've always wondered when the first Street View ever appeared on Google Maps, because every time I check on it, the oldest Street View images I can find are mostly from 2007
Loved the flashing red triangle in the video ...
because of law street view of germany was completly new done around 2 years ago. before that there were only images from 2008 of major cities because of privacy law back than. because google set it up new so the old sues werent available anymore. but now all the old images are gone :(. and there is no different time available. I mean there is a private company which memoriezes the WHOLE COUNTRY and they pay for it and its available for everyone for free. it would love to view places here at different times and it will never be possible to catch that missing time again...
2:32 omg i wrote the comment even before starting to watch the video. im so damn hyped brah
Do you know about the first prototype mapping system similar to Street View, filmed in 1978 in Aspen, Colorado?
It was a project by MIT called "Aspen Movie Map", which used 16mm film cameras strapped to a vehicle, then the video images were stored on Laserdiscs.
Underrated
Enjoyed the video so thank you so much 😊for all your hard work in creating it
I look at street view every now and then and see what changed.
So cool to see what changed over the years.
The lowest years is about 2007, it’s still cool to compare what it used to look like.
Good job with the video but all those 1 frame red flashes for transitions really hurts my eyes after a bitu
I ended up looking up my street in google maps after I watched this to see what the road I live on looked like 11 years ago. My dad told me not long ago about how he would burn tired up and down the road and sure enough there was the tire marks that he left up and down the road, and there was his 1980's monte carlo that he had at the time. I was 5 so I don't remember him flying up and down the road with it, but I sure remember the car. Good memories
the other day or so i seen a google streat view car driveing in my moms neighborhood
Every time you said "Trekker" I kept looking around for a nerdy looking person in a Starfleet uniform.
That makes why the most random roads only have street view from 2008
Street view makes a big difference in my work. I live in the UK and as many will know, parking here is inescapably crap. I very often look at street view to see possible parking spots where I have to go. It's been invaluable
This video inspired me to use google maps to explore places i used to live and schools i used to go to, i went to opequon elemetary (its fine, i dont live anywhere near that now and my name has changed since lol), but i look there now and even the earliest i can see they had a whole new housing development built there after i left, which idk, is just wild! it kinda kills the nostalgia tho. but also somewhat, theres things i remember that bring me back so idk. other places i visited of my childhood kept a lot of the nostalgia, even looking back on the pre 2010s views where they existed, and thats fun as it gets to see. im so glad google street view kept all the versions, bc it really holds a place in my heart in some of these views, as silly as that might be to say
I enjoy looking back on my childhood street using the street view and seeing the Karate Dojo that was there that I can vividly remember even though I was only 3 before it was replaced with a Laundromat
I can also see my grandma sitting on her porch