Google Street View, launched in Turkey in 2015; Integrated with Google Maps and Google Earth technologies allowing panoramic views of many public spaces around the world along the streets a technology service.

Anyone who wants to can open it up and tour street by street through many parts of the world. Sometimes even the ones people see in Street View. funny or scary sights It can also be on the agenda. Let’s get to our main topic: how are these photos taken?

There are special cars for this job.

There are tools specifically designed for Google Maps to create Street View photos. These tools, It features high-resolution cameras and takes 360-degree panoramic photos by traveling along certain routes.. This way it can show us in detail the streets, avenues and roads that we see on the map.

In some regions, instead of a car Bicycles with mounted cameras are used. Bicycles are generally preferred on narrow roads or in historic areas.

There is also the “Google Street View Trekker” method.

As you can imagine, vehicles can’t go everywhere. For this, portable cameras are used. Approximately The backpack is mounted with equipment weighing 18 kg and people who work for this job at Google, run and gun. In return, people work 8 hours a day and earn a salary of about 1500 dollars.

In addition, anyone can contribute. Google users, photos taken with smartphones or 360 degree cameras Can upload to Google Maps. So you can do it too if you want.

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