Google is celebrating the anniversary of Street View on Google Maps with the discharge of recent options and a model new digital camera. To begin with, the corporate is bringing the enduring Street View function that encompasses 220 billion pictures in over 100 nations and territories, to cellular. With the brand new replace, Android and iOS customers can have a look at historic Street View pictures from earlier years on the Google Maps cellular app. Google has additionally unveiled a brand new digital camera to gather extra Street View information. The new system weighs lower than 15 kilos and can be obtainable alongside Google’s Street View vehicles and Trekker backpacks beginning subsequent yr.

The search large by way of a blog post on Tuesday detailed new options that Google Maps is rolling out to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of Street View. The Street View function is getting upgrades and is coming to Android and iOS platforms permitting customers to discover historic Street View pictures from earlier years on the Google Maps cellular app. While viewing Street View imagery of a spot, customers can faucet anyplace on the photograph to see particulars concerning the location. Then faucet See extra dates to journey again to see the historic imagery Google revealed of that place when the function launched again in 2007.

Additionally, the corporate is piloting a brand new transportable digital camera to seize high-quality pictures of historically under-mapped areas just like the Amazon jungle. The new digital camera has a appropriate design and it weighs lower than 15 kilos. According to Google, it’s roughly the scale of a home cat. It can be totally rolled out subsequent yr. It comes with a modular design and choices for customisation and might be hooked up to any automobile with a roof rack and operated proper from a cellular system.

The new Street View digital camera will sit with Google’s present fleet of Street View vehicles and Trekker backpacks to assist customers collect high-quality pictures of areas like distant islands with extra particulars together with lane markings or potholes.

To mark the 15 years of Street View, Google is permitting customers to customize the chevron icon that represents their automobile when in navigation mode to a celebratory Street View automobile. Furthermore, the Pegman indicator can be dressed up in a birthday hat and balloons. This is barely obtainable on the desktop service.