Tuesday, April 16

Google’s Street View tool turns 15


Next Sunday, May 29, the 15th birthday of street view and with this reason Google has published a study about the most visited places using this tool. According to said report, Spain is the sixth country with the most visitors in the last year (May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022). Inside of Spain, Catalonia and Andalusia are the autonomous communities that take the cake and Madrid and Barcelona were the most popular Spanish destinations for the whole world in the last year.

What has been most explored in Street View in Spain have been three football stadiums, which stand out among the five most visited points of interest: Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Camp Nou, Sagrada Familia,

Punta de Tarifa and Wanda Metropolitano.

With the arrival of summer, Street View has also been used to see which are the most “clicked” beaches on the platform. Between April 24, 2021 and April 24 of this year, Balearic Islands take the cake with Ibiza’s Playa d’en Bossa and Mallorca’s Cala Major. It is followed by S’Alguer beach, Malagueta and Cala Moraig.

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Remember that thanks to this application, users can climb mountains, dive into the depths of the ocean, explore places to eat and walk through museums in faraway corners of the world, directly from the living room. These are the most visited Spanish museums on Street View between April 24 last year and April 24 this year: El Prado National Museum, FC Barcelona Museum, City of Arts and Sciences, Park Güell and Guggenheim Bilbao.

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400 times around the world

In these 15 years, Street View cars have traveled more than 16 million kilometers, a distance that goes around the world more than 400 times, and more than 220 billion images have been collected. This has made it possible to map the world and put everything in the palm of the hand of navigators to travel to any part of the globe.

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