A quick tweet explaining how to show older images on Google Maps Street View turned out to be one of the most rewarding things to happen to me this week.
Google Maps Street View Time Machine is hardly a Google Maps hack - it's been a core feature since 2014 - but its icon is so subtle that a lot of users just don't know it's there.
In fact, even though it's a feature I've loved for a while, I had to dive into the page code to even find out that it's called 'Time Machine'.
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| How to show old photos on Google Maps Street View Time Machine |
What I really didn't expect was the number of 'thank you' replies I would get, or the sometimes sad but always heartwarming reasons why people wanted to show old Street View imagery.
