The man captures the moment when Google Street View shows his grandfather, who died a year ago. (Photo: Atomix)
There is no doubt that Technology It makes life easier for everyone in the world, though sometimes it gives more than one expects. A tool to help you determine places mobile phone This is Google Street View. However, with it you can search not only the address but also the pictures stored there. Next, Infobae brings the case of a man who found his grandfather dead last year on the platform he owns Google.
This is known thanks to the user account Twitter, @diegomorals, where Told this story Caused by using Street View. According to his testimony, the young man found his dead grandfather in one of his favorite places last year thanks to a Google tool.
A young man finds his grandfather who died a year ago on Google Street View. (Photo: Twitter / diegomorals)
He later asked network users Appreciate your loved ones And visit a member who is alone or ill.
“Enjoy your loved ones. Visit that uncle, cousin, friend, grandfather who is lonely or sick. Solve your problems with those who have it. Make peace with those who have hurt you or who you have hurt. “Life is passable, love is eternal,” Diego said.
As expected, This post has gone viral with hundreds of likes and comments. Also, there were more testimonies and similar cases were shared.
Users Social networks Has been sharing photos for a long time Family and friends of the deceased That will appear Google Street View, A service that offers 360 ° images of the streets of the world. Here is an overview of 5 cases:
Neil Henderson, a BBC staffer, found out Photo of a dead father standing at the door of his house. “I have literally hundreds of photos of my dad, but on Google Street View it ‘s pretty shocking, as if he’ s still here,” he said.
A man sees his dead father in Google Street View. (Photo: Google)
The post says that they searched the Google Maps app launched in 2007 for pictures taken before his father’s death.
Another case became known thanks to the user, on his Twitter, Showed a picture of the couple And wrote: “I can go back to 2009 and see my parents walking hand in hand on the street. I lost them 8 and 6 years ago.
Google StreetView. (Photo: Twitter / Sean)
Another user, named Bernard Baker, reveals the case of a woman standing at the door of her house and wrote in her tweet: “My mother goes to smoke cigarettes.”
Google StreetView. (Photo: Twitter / Bernie)
Others said they only saw local pictures when their loved ones were still alive It made them feel connected. “My beloved father, who died in 2013, is still on Google Maps,” one woman wrote, pointing to her father in the window of their home.
Google StreetView. (Photo: Twitter / Dawn)
However, some said it was sad that some of the street pictures were in Google Street View They have been replaced with the latest photos. Despite this, There is a way to get back to the front.
If there is a Clock Icon At the top left of Google Maps, images preview is available. Thanks to this tool, Karim Palant was able to find the previous scene in which his late grandfather Charles Palant appeared in the 2015 shot. It shows him leaning out of the window of his apartment in Paris. The man died a few months later.
“He was on that floor for about 70 years, I spent a lot of happy time there,” Karim Palant said. In addition, he explained that his grandfather was taking computer lessons at the age of 90, but did not believe he had seen himself in Google Street View.
Google StreetView. (Photo: Google)
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