Launch your boat or enjoy a swim in the crystal clear water of West Hill Pond as you are serenaded with the sound of music from summer concerts at Brodie Park. Cross country ski on snow covered town park trails. Snowshoe to Jones Mountain's summit and gaze at the picturesque village below.

Feel the breeze while heading to the mountain’s base.

But I coulda told you that.Skate on our local ice rink. It’s pretty nifty to be able to page through many years for a particular location! Funny that the parking lot of my favorite coffee shop still looks exactly the same, except it’s busier these days. …and if you want to see that version full-screen instead, click on its thumbnail in the box to expand it out to the size of your window. Select one of the pips to see the thumbnail of the archived version… Then Google Maps should drop you into Street View, but the magic is this: If an archive of captures is available for your location, you’ll see a small clock appear after a moment or two on the controls at the upper-left corner:Ĭlick the clock, and you’ll get a timeline with white pips indicating the available archived captures. Pick him up and drag him onto your map where you’d like to check out the Street View, as I’m doing here. When you do that, you’ll see Google’s so-called Pegman down near the bottom of your window. When you get there, type in the address or business you’d like to view within the search box, like so: Start by opening the browser of your choice and visiting. No offense, Google, but you know my joke hits the mark there, right? In any case, here’s what you’ll do to check this out! But because it’s Google, this is all controlled through a really teeny non-obvious button. So you can see what a place looked like in 2008, say, and then watch its growth over the years.

Still, there’s a little-known feature of Street View that I think is really cool to this day-it’ll let you view the archives (if any) of the Street View captures for an area.

Remember back in the day when we all were really excited by Google’s Street View? Yeah, that was a long time ago in tech years, wasn’t it? Maybe we can all party like it’s 2009.

Instant st view