In Street View mode, you can see 360-degree images of Ollivanders Wand Shop. — -- The shops of Diagon Alley from Harry Potter are now on Google Maps' Street View. It's no Marauder's Map, but ...

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It has been several years since Google's influential Street View left the roads and began to map everything from shopping centers to hiking trails. The device that made this happen was called the ...

Street View for Google Maps launched 15 years ago this week, and Google is taking advantage of the anniversary to drop some updates, including a major update to the Street View mapping hardware. The ...

Three years ago, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan and moved the entire island by 8 feet, changing the way the Earth spun on its axis in the process. The devastation of the ...

As part of its 15-year anniversary semi-celebration of Street View, Google is taking us all back in time — metaphorically speaking, obviously. Along with an adorable new camera, the service itself is ...

Google has begun testing technology to blur faces in its Street View feature in an attempt to better balance privacy and the usefulness of a driver's-eye view of the world. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Google is now giving you the option to create your own navigable Street View landscape using a new feature within its Views community. Views allows those who have created photo spheres with the camera ...

You won't believe what Google's cameras have quietly snapped over the years GOOGLE Street View has built a 360-degree map of the planet using cameras mounted on cars, bikes and even snow mobiles. And ...

The news this week that Google has removed images from Street View that allowed virtual hikes to the summit of Uluru, a sacred location in Australia's Northern Territory, raises a serious question.