Brazilian pattern collective URB-I attain got struck upon a vivid role for the historical Street View imagery available inwards Google Maps. They are using earlier together with later shots from Street View to showcase improvements inwards street pattern made past times metropolis planners roughly the world.
URB-I's Before together with After includes examples of places across the globe where populace spaces attain got been transformed from car-oriented to pedestrian friendly locations. To illustrate these changes inwards street pattern they only role Street View images from Google Maps taken earlier together with later the redesign.
Google kickoff added historical imagery to Google Maps dorsum inwards Apr 2014. Unfortunately the Google Maps API doesn't render a straight means to access this historical imagery. If yous role the API to introduce a Street View panorama of a location the API ever default to demonstrate the nearly recent Street View panorama.
However it is possible to forcefulness the API to demonstrate an historical Street View image. If yous role the panoID method to demonstrate a Street View panorama you tin role the panoID of an historical Street View panorama to ensure that it is displayed (the panoID tin endure constitute inwards the URL link for the Street View on desktop Google Maps).
Via: CityLab
