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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lee Grimsditch

Incredible images show changes to Liverpool city centre since Google car first came to town

The first time the now famous Google car started taking images of Liverpool's streets was way back in 2008.

Since then, the car has been visiting the city almost every year with the newest set of images taken in September, 2022. There are now over 220 billion Street View images from over 100 countries and territories across the world, allowing users to explore the streets of countries they could only dream of travelling to.

Google's cameras snap a number of photos as well as capturing GPS data to match each photograph to its location. Images from each camera overlap and special software then 'stitches' them together to form a map.

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