You can view old street view photos, they aren’t lost.
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Phen@lemmy.eco.br 13 hours ago
He’s probably no longer there, the pic is quite old and Google has updated a lot of its street view stuff over the years. Unless this is some place where 2012 was the first time that google decided to map - in that case it may be pretty low on the priority list for updating.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 hours ago
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
On Google Earth (rather than Google maps), you can view all the previous streetview photos from any location that has them - so the 2012 one won’t be the default one, but you can switch back to it with a few clicks.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
You can also view older Street view images on Google maps, at least on mobile not sure about desktop
lividweasel@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yep, I’ve been doing it on desktop Google Maps for a few years.
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 12 hours ago
Oh I didn’t know that! Gonna have to take a trip through some old photos one of these days.