The dedicated Street View app, available on both Android and iOS, lets you check out places on Google Maps with Street View and contribute 360-degree imagery, or what Google calls “photo spheres ...

Software developer Brian Folts has the tool up on his site, and it’s easy and impressive. You type in your origin and destination, then hit play to see a street-by-street view of your map route.

How to Use Google Map Street View. Google Maps' Street View feature gives you a street-level view of an area, showing you much more detail than you can see from aerial views.

Instant Street View brings you an in-the-street close-up look at locations all over the globe. It uses Google Maps' technology to not only show you where the location is on a map but also what it ...