

Now, an X appears at the cursor, in addition to the existing directional arrows, to mark the next landing spot when moving forward. The improvements to Street View on the desktop also include enhanced navigation controls. It also brings significant improvements to Street View on mobile browsers, including motion tracking, touch support, and more realistic streetscapes. The update, which is rolling out today, should eliminate the jumping effect when moving between locations, wonky buildings, and stuttering animations in Street View. Google is turning to locals to help build out Street View imagery as it takes its mapping services to pastures new. We’ve included this section to answer some more of your questions.Behind the scenes of how Google brought Street View to the Pyramids Google’s Street View is an incredibly useful tool. Provide images, feedback, and even rate businesses using the Google Contribution feature within Google Maps by clicking the three horizontal line menu bar and clicking on ‘Contribute.’ Frequently Asked Questions Of course, you can always upload your own pictures to places you’ve traveled using Google Maps. Use the link to submit an issue to Google for review. From Street View, click on ‘Report a Problem’ and submit a report. However, if there is something seriously wrong with your Google Street View, you can send a report to Google. The car has a schedule and it sticks to that schedule. Unfortunately, you can’t request a new image or update on Street View. People often ask for Google to revisit their town or their street because it has been renovated, improved, developed, changed, or because they just didn’t like the picture the car took. Some at least are updating existing images.įortunately, Google Maps does show you the month and year of the image you’re looking at when you click on the Street View option.Ĭan you request a Google Street View update? If you checked the Street View car schedule, you will see that the car still retraces its steps so not all cars are sent out to new places. They put more resources into adding to the project and that makes sense.

Google says they prioritize areas with no Google Street View presence over updating those with an existing presence. This was when that particular scene was last updated. You should see a small box in the corner saying something like ‘Image capture: May 2018’. You can tell when Google Street View was updated in the bottom right of the screen. There may be a set schedule for taking new images but there is no schedule for updating them to the web. It takes quite a while from the moment the images were captured to seeing them on the map. As you can imagine, there is a lot of work behind the scenes to take the imagery from the cars and contributors, blur out faces and license plates and prepare them for use on Google Street View.
