Google Street View gets sweet new cameras and more

Google Street View gets sweet new cameras and more

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It's the 15th anniversary of Google Street View, and to celebrate, the Maps mobile app is getting a time capsule of sorts.

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Google Street View-ready cameras

The new feature, which is available on Android and iOS, lets you view images taken in Street View as far back as 2007, the year the service was launched. Google also revealed a new Street View camera, which is lighter than previous models, and new photo collections for famous places around the world.

To access the feature, you must first tap on the image to get location information, then you can use the "View More Dates" option to view archived images of that location.

Street View was first available in New York City, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver with Los Angeles soon after. These cities will have images as far back as 2007, but for other locations, the oldest archived image depends on when Google took the first image in that area.