Google Maps is becoming a time capsule. Searching among its archives it is possible to see old photographs of the places we have lived and meet people who are part of our past. Some photos are more updated, others less. In this article we explain to you by exploring the entire Street View archive.
The photo has escaped. The subjects they have no defined be contoursthe shadows and lights are not very distinct. Nothing comparable to any image taken by Smartphone we have in your pocket. In fact, this photo dates back to November 2008. It was published these days by Simona Roselli. Or at least that’s the profile name.
Simona is not an influencer, it looks just over one private profile. The photo with the animation that appears in this video was seen by almost Three million people and managed to collect 534,000 likes. The reason? The photo comes from Street Viewthe Google Maps service that allows you to explore the roads of a map as if we were on the map itself.
Simona is great now, from videos it is seen that he has finished the High schools. Yet the photos of Street View are not updated and have stopped time for a normal afternoon of many years agoin which she is still small and is returning with a kindergarten to a bike guided by the grandfather. This is the description of the video:
“On Google Maps it is still November 2008. And my grandfather and I are returning from kindergarten with his bike.”
The stories of our past on Google Maps
In 2019 Maggie Smith He published an article in the New York Times that was titled “by tracing the end of my wedding on Google Maps”. Here Smith tells at the end of the relationship with her husband and the house in which they lived together for many years. And above all he tells how Scrolling back the images of Google Maps was able to review All the phases of his marriage.
Street View photos, at least those of the roads, are usually made by Google cara car equipped with a scaffolding of cameras. There is no exact date for the update. There are areas where there is only one photo, taken perhaps years ago, and others in which a photograph is updated per year, as in the center of Milan.
Google Maps just has turned 20 But Street View did not arrive at all countries at the same time. In Italy it was launched in 2008 in the cities and has expanded in the following years also in Less inhabited areas of the country. If the date written by Simona corresponds to the real one it would be one of the First photos published in Street View Italy.
How to see the old photos of Street View
To see the Old photographs uploaded to Street View The process is simple. Just go to the road you prefer and then look at the top left. In the box you will see the date on which photography was taken. Next to you find the wording “Sea More Dates”. By clicking it you will see a series of photographs with the next date appear. Choose that too you prefer. Sometimes this archive has also served to solve old news cases.
