With Google’s Street View feature, you can virtually explore cities and neighborhoods as if you were physically present. Street View is intuitively designed, making it especially useful when you need directions to an unfamiliar place, want to preview a destination before your visit, or wish to investigate areas of interest in more detail.
How to Use Google Street View on a Web Browser
Street View is one of the most engaging features of Google Maps on desktop, allowing users to experience locations up close. For selected areas, Google Maps provides a direct stream to Street View. To access this feature, follow these steps:
Use Street View on iOS
Contrary to some common misconceptions, Google’s official support indicates that iOS users—including those on iPhones and iPads—have full access to Street View. To explore an area on iOS, follow these steps:
Use Street View on Android
What can you do in Street View?
When using Street View, you can enhance your virtual exploration with several interactive features:
What Can You Not Do in Street View?
While Google encourages users to explore and utilize Street View, certain activities are not permitted in order to protect privacy and copyright.
Digitizing or tracing information visible in Street View images to create new datasets.Using automated software or scripts to extract data from Street View imagery.Downloading Street View images for use outside Google’s environments (such as creating offline copies).Combining, merging, or stitching multiple Street View photos to produce large, composite images.
These restrictions apply equally to both commercial and non-profit projects. Adhering to these rules preserves the integrity of Google’s services and the copyrights of its contributors.
Required Attribution
Whenever you use Google Maps, Google Earth, or Street View content, proper attribution to Google and its data providers is required.
Copyright and attribution notices, such as “Map data 2019 Google,” are typically displayed at the bottom of the map or image. Please be aware that the specific wording may differ depending on your region or the type of content.
