{"id":4823,"date":"2014-04-28T12:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2014-04-28T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T17:05:34","slug":"google-adds-street-view-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/google-adds-street-view-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Google adds Street View time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was sort of under the radar, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/personal-technology\/2014\/04\/23\/google-maps-time-machine-lets-you-stroll-the-streets-of-the-past\/\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/google-maps-street-view-now-lets-you-go-back-in-time\/\">CNET<\/a> picked up on it. Google added something I had wondered about recently: For places that have had the Street View camera go through multiple times, you now have the option (on some browsers) to see the older version of the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all. In a browser where this option is available, Google&#8217;s little Pegman looks like&#8230;<em>Doc Brown<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4824\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/docbrowntraer.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"101\" \/>\u00a0<em>Great Scott!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Street View car has been up and down US 63 in Traer twice, but IA 8 only once, in the early days, and the rest of the streets not at all.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;Time Machine&#8221; is a great addition, but I also wish Google would dedicate some more time to updating its very early pass-throughs in much of the U.S. to high-definition and also hitting smaller places that haven&#8217;t been visited at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was sort of under the radar, but the Wall Street Journal and CNET picked up on it. Google added something I had wondered about recently: For places that have had the Street View camera go through multiple times, you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/google-adds-street-view-time-machine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}