New Google Maps Street View Feature May Allow Users to Upload Own Photos

Urian B., Tech Times 10 November 2020, 07:11 am

(Photo : Screenshot From Jeremy G Youtube) New Google Maps Street View Feature: Users Might be Able to Upload Their Own Photos

Google has been doing a lot of internal work trying to improve its services, offering more and more features. With the unexpected coronavirus taking the world by storm, Google has resulted in utilizing its Google Maps app by offering a new feature that helps people deal with the current pandemic.

Google Maps Street View new feature: What it does and why it's important

Google Maps, one of the most popular navigation as well as exploration tools for Android and iOS users, is said to add a new feature to its own Google Street View. According to an article by Phonearena, this new feature might even allow users to upload photos in order to provide even more visuals of hardly reachable areas of the street or of the cities that are currently visible in its Google Street View.

According to a report by SlashGear, the feature would allow users to upload images and this will be present in the given standalone app known as the Google Street view. The whole new feature will allow users to use their simple smartphone in order for them to contribute towards Google Maps.

Can you use Google street view images?

From the start, Google's approach to the whole "street view" was by utilizing cars equipped with 360-degree cameras in order for them to take proper photos of the given streets. This then reportedly helped anyone who was in need for a more precise means of navigation or even just to get the personal feel of the said street within Google Maps as well as Google Street View. This was then utilized by users in order to virtually place themselves straight in the very middle of the whole street and allow them to look around.

As of the moment, in order to further this given capability and also to make the previously unavailable places for visualization more accessible. The reported Google Street View will utilize a new feature allowing users to be able to take photos using their smartphones of places that they go through.

New feature spotted by a Reddit user

This new feature was actually first spotted by the Reddit user known as -J-F- who showed the new Google Street View in its driving mode. In addition, Google might be in need of more image processing and software in order to merge the said photos straight together into a full 360-angle view.

As was expected, the given app will automatically blur out people's faces as well as vehicle plates. This is in order to be able to protect everyone's privacy while at the very same time being able to provide even more images in order for Google Street View to visualize. This will reportedly be able to help people reach places that are unreachable for even Google itself.