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Having taken pictures of more than 6 million miles’ worth of road, today Google is more than doubling the amount of global Street View imagery by adding all of its archive photography.
The company’s Google Maps Web application will now include a time machine feature where users can move a slider to see all historical images of a place. As much as possible, pictures of the same place have been aligned so they have the same perspective as one another.