With just a few clicks, Street View takes your students far beyond the borders of the classroom to almost anywhere in the world. Get a bird’s-eye view, take a virtual field trip, and search for other locations; wherever your interests carry you. You’ll see astonishing images along the way. Explore historical monuments, natural monoliths, and wildlife refuges. You can even dive under the ocean’s surface.
Your students will never see the world the same way again.
Hello World
Google collects Street View imagery by driving, pedaling, sailing and walking around and capturing imagery with special cameras that simultaneously collect images in multiple directions. The images are later overlapped and stitched together into a single 360-degree image.
Fun Fact
This year Google Street View turned ten years old. Since launching a decade ago the Street View cars have driven more than 10 million kilometers in over 70 countries. The same camera system has also been mounted on tricycles, snow machines, boats, dog sleds and even the backs of camels to allow us to travel across the World’s continents.
Put Your Places on Street View
Through the Street View mobile application you can both explore the Google collections of images, and add your own 360 photographs. There are now several 360 cameras which connect directly to the App, allowing capture and upload of your immersive view of the World.
Try This!
You can share Street View images via the URL that displays the image in a browser, or you can easily embed an image on a web page using HTML code. Just open the Street View image in Google Maps and click on the three dots icon in the top left corner.
Where do you get all those wonderful images?
Through Street View, Google enhances its goal of providing useful and accurate imagery which can can be used for learning about the World around us. Google goes to great lengths to make sure that imagery is useful and reflects the World users explore.
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