Google Street View’s ‘time travel’ feature comes to smartphones

Google, which has sent its Street View cars out to take photos of streets around the world several times over, is now letting people use their phones to see what streets looked like years ago. — dpa

Google Street View’s “time travel” feature is being added to smartphones for the first time, allowing users to look back at historical photos of locations on their mobile for the first time.

Street View is the tech giant’s 360° photo-based map of the world with images captured from cameras mounted onto vehicles and even backpacks and can be found within Google Maps.