Showing Urban Gist Improvements Alongside Street View

Brazilian blueprint collective URB-I guide maintain struck upon a bright role for the historical  Street View imagery available inwards Google Maps. They are using earlier together with afterward shots from Street View to showcase improvements inwards street blueprint made yesteryear urban marrow planners exactly about the world.

URB-I's Before together with After includes examples of places across the globe where world spaces guide maintain been transformed from car-oriented to pedestrian friendly locations. To illustrate these changes inwards street blueprint they but role Street View images from Google Maps taken earlier together with afterward the redesign.


Google start added historical imagery to Google Maps dorsum inwards Apr 2014. Unfortunately the Google Maps API doesn't furnish a straight means to access this historical imagery. If you lot role the API to acquaint a Street View panorama of a location the API ever default to exhibit the close recent Street View panorama.

However it is possible to strength the API to exhibit an historical Street View image. If you lot role the panoID method to exhibit a Street View panorama you tin role the panoID of an historical Street View panorama to ensure that it is displayed (the panoID tin live on constitute inwards the URL link for the Street View on desktop Google Maps).

Via: CityLab