Think about how frequently restaurants in your neighborhood come and go, and then consider all the businesses, buildings, homes and roads that are built–and then scale that up to more than 220 countries and regions that are home to more than 7 billion people in the world. The world is a vast and constantly changing place. How do you make sure Google’s maps data is accurate? So before we get to our third installment of the Beyond the Map series, we sat down with product director Ethan Russell to get answers to a few frequently asked questions about our maps data and how you can help us keep it up to date for your very own applications and experiences.

Tap on X to exit the historical street view and arrive back to the current view.With more than a billion people using Google Maps every month and more than 5 million active apps and websites using Google Maps Platform core products every week, we get questions about where our maps data come from, how we keep it accurate, and more.

Look around the Street View with the directional arrows on the screen and compare the imagery across the dates.

Select the thumbnail in the carousel closest to the historical period you want to see the images for.

In the Street View mode, select See more dates to open a timeline carousel of street view imagery.

Enter the location or a precise address in the search field and zoom into the street-level view of the place you want to explore.

Then, close the panel with a tap on the X.

Open the Google Maps app on iOS or Android.

The screenshots below are from the Google Map app on iOS. The process to see Google Street View images is the same in the Google Map app for Android and iOS. You can view historical Street View images going back to 2007 provided Google had recorded them in the past. How to See Historical Google Street View on iOS and Android

Satellite map street view