You don't have to go back 100 years to see a drastic change in Albany, it's pretty remarkable after only 15! See 10 local landmarks 'then vs. now' using Google Maps
Have you ever seen the Google Street View cars driving around Central New York? They drive around capturing footage of every street across the world, putting it online for anyone to access at any point.
Everything's captured as it is in that moment: Cars are in driveways...
Roughly 60 percent of the world is without Internet today, and even where online access is available, it can still be spotty. That means that quick and easy access to information is still not possible for a majority of the population. Yes, a big problem when you're trying to get directions from Google Maps or turn by turn navigation.
So while on Facebook this morning I found something that claims if you type 52.376552, 5.198303 into Google Maps, you'll find a dead body. Is this true? Is this a real murder caught by Google Maps?
Since Google launched it's street-view Maps campaign it unleashed a fleet of cars to capture the view as if you were driving down the road which is semi-creepy because you can actually look at a picture of the front of your house on there! But, God forbid you were on your front porch doing the nasty when the Google Maps car suddenly drove by and snapped a pic of you.