Google is giving users something of a time machine in a new feature on Maps. <\/p>\n
The company is adding past images of places noted in Street View for the desktop version of Google Maps. The goal is to give users the ability to see how places have changed over time. <\/p>\n
“We’ve gathered historical imagery from past Street View collections dating back to 2007 to create this digital time capsule of the world,” wrote Vinay Shet, Google’s Street View product manager, in a blog post<\/a>. “Now with Street View, you can see a landmark’s growth from the ground up, like the Freedom Tower<\/a>in New York City or the 2014 World Cup Stadium<\/a> in Fortaleza, Brazil.” <\/p>\n With Google’s new time machine-like feature in Maps, users can follow the construction of the Freedom Tower in New York City. (Photo: Google) <\/p>\n Google<\/a> also says the new feature can serve as a digital timeline of recent history, enabling users to follow the reconstruction<\/a> underway in Japan after the devastating tsunami and earthquake in 2011. <\/p>\n Users also can use the new feature to see what cities would look like in different seasons. Looking to take a bike tour of the French countryside or the green mountains of Vermont? Now users can get a glimpse of them at different times of the year to help them decide when to go\u2026 <\/p>\n From ComputerWorld<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Go time traveling with Google Maps Google adds new time machine feature to let users see older images of favorite places, buildings By Sharon Gaudin Google is giving users something of a time machine in a new feature on Maps. The company is adding past images of places noted in Street View for the desktop version of Google\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7437\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NYC](\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/common\/images\/site\/features\/2014\/04\/freedom%20tower.png\"\/ "\\"NYC")
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