Surely if you are a Google Maps user you know its Street View function. A way to see and navigate the real world from a mobile or computer screen. That mode that shows 360-degree photos of streets and highways, offering to virtually walk through them to see what an address looks like before you even get to it . Super useful to recognize a place before reaching it. Well, if you didn't know it or don't remember where to find it on Google Maps for Android, this is about to change.
And is that Google has retouched its maps application to include a small design change that makes easier to find Street View In this way, the function appears as one more layer or view of the map, to indicate the point at which we want to start navigating in virtual reality. Something that modifies the old behavior of clicking on a part of the map and then selecting this feature.
With the new change you only have to access Google Maps and place yourself in the area of the map that you want to scrutinize. Then click on the icon at the top right of the screen, just below the search bar and above the compass. It is the button that displays the layers menu, with which to change the appearance of the map and go from a drawn representation to the satellite image, the physical image to see the relief of the terrain, or even to see the traffic, the roads or public transport networks.
Well, now also there is an icon for Street View This way, if we select it, the map shows blue lines everywhere the streets and highways through which the Google cameras have circulated. With this, all that remains is to click on any point on these blue lines to instantly switch to Street View. In other words, the 360-degree photograph of that point, where you can look in any direction or from where you can move around the place step by step.
Now, this redesign is gradually reaching all users. So you should update Google Maps from the Google Play Store and take a look to see if you already have it with you. If not, you'll have to repeat the old process: a long press on a point on the map and then press on the Street View thumbnail to switch to this mode.
