Google Introduced new features Google Maps Street ViewAmong which is opportunity Back in time with mobile And know cities with immersive maps, as well A new camera that will record the world With high quality images.

Street View is a Google Maps service that shows a view of the streets, with real photos taken in 360 degrees. The company announced the launch of new features this Tuesday, in connection with this day 15th anniversary of its foundationWhich will be held this week, May 29th.

One such innovation is the camera, which, as Google highlighted on its blog, “contains all the power, resolution and processing capabilities built into a Street View car, but is compact in an ultra-portable system.”

With two lenses and a metal support for ventilation holes, this camera can shoot from a remote island to a mountain peak. It weighs less than 7 kilograms And allows the integration of modular components such as a Laser scanner Collect images with useful details such as stripe marks or holes.

In addition, this device, which will be introduced in Street View cars from next year, Can be attached to any car that has roof racks And controlled from a mobile device.

With the new camera, Google hopes to “collect high-quality images in more places,” especially from “traditionally unspecified areas such as the Amazon rainforest.”

How the streets have changed in 15 years

This is another news announced in connection with the anniversary of this service Ability to go back in time from iOS and Android appsA feature that until now was only available in the web version.

Users will be able to imagine how time passes on the ground with a new option integrated into images Entitled “See More Dates”. When they view a picture, they can click on it to get more information about the site as well as other pictures posted on this site. Since Street View was released in 2007.

Similarly, Google has compiled a new immersive view that creates a new map from a combination of Street View image artificial intelligence (AI), as it has already announced at its annual development event.

Thanks to advances in machine vision and artificial intelligence, it will begin to combine aerial and street view images to create digital models of places around the world. This impressive view will be available later this year.