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Google Street View

December 2023

  • Illustration of the world map with identifying marks from each country - such as road signs, telegraph poles, trees

    2023 Christmas puzzles special
    If you were given a Google Street View image of anywhere on Earth, could you identify the location?

    The competitors at the GeoGuessr World Cup can do just that. The clues are in brick houses, distinctive trousers and unusual telegraph poles

April 2023

  • a mobile phone displaying Pokémon Go.

    From Google Maps to Pokémon Go, John Hanke is programming the future

    The CEO of Niantic has helped create technologies that have changed the way we live. How does he see the future of play?

January 2022

  • Gioacchino Gammino was living under a new name in Spain, where he worked as a chef.

    Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Spain after Google Street View sighting

    Convicted murderer Gioacchino Gammino tracked down in Galapagar, where he had lived undetected for 20 years

October 2021

  • google maps

    Memory lanes: Google’s map of our lives

    Google’s Street View helps us navigate the world, but it’s also a portal on forgotten places and secret moments

May 2020

  • Vorkuta, Russia

    Kneel before the bus! Soviet roadside wonders – in pictures

    From tractors on columns to pavements that take off, French photographer Jason Guilbeau outsmarted lockdown to find the former USSR’s strangest street relics

March 2020

  • Richmond, Virginia, as seen on a map from 1864.

    The long read
    The unlisted: how people without an address are stripped of their basic rights

    The long read: Without a street address you have no access to credit or bank accounts, a pension or voting rights. But large parts of the world’s population still live off the map

January 2020

  • Window box filled with pelargoniums outside a house on Colebrooke Row in Islington, North London N1 England

    How I fell in love with ...
    When I’m homesick, I take a walk down the streets on my screen

    Leandra Beabout
    This is the story of how I fell in love with Google Street View, which is really a story about coming home

April 2019

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Google Street View’s ability to calculate car accident risks is digital tech writ large

    John Naughton
    A new study suggests that machine-learning software, used in conjunction with Street View, can provide more accurate insurance premiums

November 2018

  • Prince Charles with the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh

    Prince Charles at 70: royal fans can explore Clarence House online

    Project created with Google to showcase prince’s support for heritage, art and architecture

August 2018

  • a suited sebastian thrun in shirt collars standing with his arms folded in a corridor

    Sebastian Thrun: ‘The costs of the air taxi system could be less than an Uber’

    The Google X founder on flying taxis, the healthcare uses for AI – and why we haven’t seen the last of Google Glass

November 2017

  • Durital Andreassen poses with a sheep for Sheep View 360 project, Faroe Islands - Jul 2016 **Full Story Available. Please contact your account manager for written feature.** The Faroe Islands have launched a sheep-based mapping system to convince Google to bring them Street View. Sheep View 360 is a project aiming to put these volcanic islands in the North Atlantic on the map.

    Not so sheepish now: Google Street View adds the Faroe Islands

    One woman’s idea of strapping cameras to sheep prodded the internet giant into helping put the north Atlantic islands on Street View – with a resulting upswing in tourism

October 2017

  • The Great Ocean Road in Victoria

    Google Maps leaves visitors to Australian lighthouse town in the dark

    While the Blue Mountains error in New South Wales has been fixed, those looking for Aireys Inlet in Victoria head down a residential driveway

June 2017

  • Google Street view at Uluru

    Uluru arrives on Google Street View, giving online experience of sacred area

  • Lindsey Dixon, of Northern Territory Tourism, captured the Google Street View content at Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in accordance with Tjukurpa law.

    Google Street View brings Uluru up close: ‘It’s otherworldly’ – video

February 2017

  • Google Maps is launching Street View imagery collected by Game of Thrones actor and UN Ambassador, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (aka: Jaime Lannister), to raise awareness of climate change. Nikolaj took the Street View Trekker to Greenland, where, just as you’d expect from someone trained on action movies, he walked on ice, jumped on a quad bike, got on a boat and took a helicopter to capture the melting ice sheets on Street View and raise awareness of climate change. He’s the first celebrity to capture Street View imagery.

    Game of Thrones star in Greenland for Google Street View

    GoT’s Jaime Lannister has shown little love for the far north, unlike the man who plays him, Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who has been collecting street view imagery for Google in southern Greenland to highlight the impact of climate change

September 2016

  • The blurred cow, pictured in Google Street View by the river Cam in Cambridge.

    Google Street View's beefed-up privacy blurs cow's face

    Google admitted their software had been ‘overzealous’, but didn’t begrudge cow for milking its newfound fame

July 2016

  • Sheep on the Faroe islands

    Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View

    Tired of waiting for Google to map the archipelago, Faroe Islanders have launched Sheep View 360, enlisting their ovine population to do the leg work

March 2016

  • The Devils Kneading Trough on the North Downs

    Google maps aims to let you walk the North Downs – without leaving your sofa

  • 140x84 trailpic for National trail google trekker video

    Enthusiasts use Google cameras to map Britain's walking trails - video

January 2016

  • Aerial picture of Mont Blanc, in the French Alps.

    Climb Mont Blanc – with Google Street View

    Google’s global mapping mission means it is now possible to scale the Alps’ famous peak in the company of some of the world’s top mountaineers
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