How do you view a street location?

How can I find when the photos were taken for a particular location, that are used in Google street view?

• I'm looking at a location in my neighborhood that looks different from today... it would be nice if I knew Google street view was showing me photos of that location from July 2009, for example.

• Answer:

  1) As to the single pictures taken by users, a date is often indicated when you click on the picture and open the image database where the image is stored. As to the pictures taken by Google itself, their date is not provided. The reason seems to have to do with privacy issues. 2) "Ok, you probably want a google answer here. Unfortunately, that wouldn't be me. Being a developer I can also tell you this would not be a difficult task. Some of the reasons for not doing it may be: (1) Leagal: Could the images be used for criminal purposes with dates and times related to them? Could google be sued for disclosing date/time data pertaining to identified cars or people? (2) Would there be a push to get current images updated more often, which would cost google more money? These are just a few, but I also would like to see at least a month and year stamp on the images." Source and further information: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=799353af462cc6bb&hl=en Further information: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=7c59ca1f6c3ba76f&hl=en http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/maps/thread?tid=4d0fe94064e772aa&hl=en