Product or service · Maps and location
Street View, streets in photos on Google Maps (2007)
The Google Maps blog introduced Street View on May 29, 2007. The feature showed photos taken from the street, which users could turn and zoom, with streets and traffic directions marked. At launch it covered parts of five U.S. cities.
There is no official image with documented origin for this record yet. The museum prefers showing no image to using one of uncertain origin.
May 29, 2007
Street View
Product or service · Maps and location · Active
What the sources say
| Claim | Record | Confidence | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cities at launch | Parts of New York, San Francisco, Denver, Las Vegas and Miami | 3 · Secondary source | [2] secondary |
Historical captures
No archived capture has been located for this record yet.
Sources
- Introducing... Street View! — Stephen Chau — Google Lat Long Blog, May 29, 2007. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
Only the title, date and byline were read by the museum. - Google Maps Intros Street View — TechCrunch, May 30, 2007. Source secondary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive
What still needs documenting
- Street View's arrival in Brazil (2010–2014 block)
- Privacy debates in the early years
On GD
GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Street View” (in Portuguese)
How to cite
"Street View, streets in photos on Google Maps (2007)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/street-view/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.
ID: street-view · Reviewed on November 2, 2026