What is Google Street View? The service explained

Google Street View captures 360-degree street-level images for Google Maps and Google Earth. These add a very special perspective to Google's maps, as you can later virtually walk through streets and places. You can use Google Street View for free.

What Google Street View offers

Google Street View is known to many users primarily in the form of the striking vehicles equipped with cameras that drive through streets. These vehicles record image material for Google Maps and Google Earth, thus adding another layer to the virtual maps. The raw data is recorded as 360-degree images. Bicycles and other vehicles are also used to record impassable terrain. Special software is used to develop 3D models from these photos, which you can call up in Google Maps and Google Earth. Google Street View is not available everywhere. Some countries have rejected the service for privacy reasons and also many private individuals have sued against the recording of their properties.

How you can use Google Street View

1. Open Google Maps.
2. Click on the menu on the left.
3. Select "Street View".
4. You will now see areas marked in blue on the map. Für diese Orte stehen Daten von Street View zur Verfügung.
5. Klicken Sie auf einen blauen Bereich, um die Gegend mit Street View zu erkunden.
6. Halten Sie die Maus gedrückt und ziehen Sie, um das Bild zu drehen.
7. Wenn Sie am Mauszeiger einen Pfeil sehen, können Sie sich durch Klicken in diese Richtung bewegen.
8. Scrollen Sie, um das Bild zu vergrößern oder zu verkleinern.