Update Google Street View in New Orleans!: 2014

Saturday, May 3, 2014

Street View now lets you go back in time!

We didn't think we'd be updating this anymore, but when Google updated the New Orleans street view we still kinda wished there was a way that we could see the Katrina era pictures. But that wasn't something we thought they would ever prioritize, or that it was something all that many other people wanted.

When street view was updated we considered the mission of this blog met. Google has gone ahead and completed our secret secondary mission as well. While we're not really big fans of the "new" google maps interface-wise, this is awesome!

Google Street View showed the world what post-Katrina New Orleans was dealing with. We've come a long way since then, but Street View remains frozen in time. Most of the images in New Orleans were taken in 2007 – five years out of date in a city that is continuously changing, demolishing, and rebuilding.

Street View is one of the go-to ways for outsiders and locals to see an area, and its outdated data hurts local businesses, apartment hunters, landlords, and the general perception of the city. To highlight the changes that have taken place these past five years, we're using this site to juxtapose Street View screenshots and photographs of what the same spot really looks like today.