How quickly do the pictures taken by the Google Streetview car get uploaded to GoogleMaps?
Months to a year, says Google.
But Streetview car visits are often rare.
Several views of my childhood home have not been updated in 7 years.
I think it really varies by location. My house has been photographed by a street view car in 2007, 2013, and 2022.
ETA: Wait, are you asking how quickly they are uploaded after they are taken? Probably pretty quickly. @MrDibble, is that the months to a year you mentioned?
This could be a game : find the oldest Streetview picture that’s still up…
Our old house has 7 street view images, between 2007 and 2019. Our current house, less than 5 miles away, has 1 street view image, from 2015.
Yep. They need to be collated and edited first, and that’s done for all the pics in a region as a batch, not as they’re each taken.
I’ve seen many of them going back to 2007, which I’m pretty sure is when they started. Haven’t paid that much attention to the specific month. They don’t give a more exact date than that.
If you want to play a game about the images and specific locations, try finding the place that has the most images. I don’t remember any specific place, but at least two dozen, multiple times in most, if not all, years. I’m going to guess that the places with the most are on arterials very close to the home base of a car.
OK, thanks. this is what I’m asking.
They also need to be stitched together. At least I assume the car takes an image from each direction and then software combines them to make a single seamless image at each location. However, I could be wrong and they have a way to take a 360° image without the need to stitch.
Rural areas may get updated much less often than urban areas.
I’m using Streetview to inspect neighborhoods when I find a house listing on Zillow, as we’re looking to move in a few months. I like to take note of how many parked cars and trucks and basketball poles there are, as well as seeing if neighbors use their driveways to stash clutter and trash, etc.
In the areas that interest me, most Streetview photos date back to 2012, and a lot can happen in eleven years. Problem neighbors may have moved, and good neighbors ditto. I wish the images were more up to date.
No, they stitch. the multi-directional camera cluster (the “rosette”) takes all the pictures at once, and then they’re processed:
I use Streetview every day in my history work. They go back to 2007. The quality of the 2007-2008 images is terrible and it is hard to read any signs, which is what I am trying to do.
Streetview pictures of my townhouse complex existed at one time, but they were removed many years ago. I suspect they realized my street is a private driveway, and took it out of the database.
The seven year gap areas were Suburban.
I was about to reply “never, here in Germany” because Google announced years ago that it would not refresh Street View in privacy minded Germany, but on checking our street I was surprised to learn it had been photographed in November 2022 by a bicycle- mounted SteetView camera (on swiveling the camera I see the operator’s bicycle, back and top of helmet). They even took the bicycle down the 74-step stairs that connect our cul-de-sac to the next street. Full marks for thoroughness.
On checking the wider vicinity it seems much of this towns and the surrounding ones (including a selection of forest paths and tracks in vineyards) have been covered pretty recently, not indeed by Google, but by companies in the Street View Trusted program. Their incentive seems to be that Street View users see their company logo on top of the car or bicycle helmet an in the margin of the StreetView photo, and get the idea to commission the company to integrate 360° indoor views of their company premises into Google StreetView.
My house in NYC was photographed 6/11, 1/13, 8/13, 6/18, and November 2022 (I was sitting in my car at the time, exciting to finally see the Google camera!)
The picture was posted about 4 weeks later - I thought that was really fast.
I live in a mobile home park, but the camera trucks don’t come into the park. The street that runs past the entrance says that the picture was taken in 2022. But the overhead satellite pictures are all copyright 2023.
The satellite views are always copyrighted in the current year, which is unlike the street level views that have month and year on them. Frequently they’re more recent than the street level views, which you can tell because something is different. For example, the StreetCar may show a country road with only farms or forest along it while the overhead view shows a subdivision being built or even already complete.
After the fire in Paradise, California, it took about a year before the overhead and the street level lined up.
My house was captured Dec 2009, Aug 2017 and July 2022.
Interestingly, the 2022 one is the only one that has weird stitching/parallax errors for the vertical bars on my front gate - the 2009 one has a different stitching error for the gate shadow, and the 2017 has no obvious errors. So their new algorithm still needs work.