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In Google Earth select 'Historical Imagery' under View menu. This shows a timeline slider from which to select available satellite and aerial imagery allowing you to travel back in time to see how things looked in the past.
As of GE 6.0 there is time indicator in the status bar [lower-left of the map] showing the oldest imagery available.
For example, if you're in London then you can jump to 1945 to see WWII imagery.
3-D Building layer
Note that the 3-D building layer are current buildings and not associated with any particular time period so you may want to turn off this layer otherwise it may not match well with the older imagery.
Newer Imagery
Sometimes there are actually newer imagery available in Historical Imagery due to Google's quality control process such as the newer image having more clouds or other defects making the older image "better".
Street View
Street View is not yet available in Historical Imagery to see older photographs.
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CoachIn Google Earth you see can the most current imagery available as well as older imagery that Google makes available. On average in the imagery found in Google Earth is 3 years old. In some parts of London and Berlin there are images dated back to 1940s. You can see what older imagery is available by turning on the 'Historical Imagery' option in the View menu which enables a time slider on the top-left from which you can select various dates.
Google Earth Desktop application has a Historical Imagery view to display imagery from previous years. Historical Imagery can be enabled in the View menu of Google Earth or Google Earth Pro.
Enable Historical Imagery then a time slider will appear on top-left showing the available times for imagery. Check if the year 2000 is included in the time slider and pick that time to change the time of the displayed imagery. Imagery in one area (city, country, etc.) for a given time does not guarantee imagery is available in another area.
Historical Imagery is not available on the mobile Google Earth app.
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How get real-time pics of Google Earth?
The aerial, satellite, and Street View imagery in Google Earth is not real-time (or live). But there is also a webcam layer integrated into Google Earth (enabled in Gallery layer) that can show "live" scenes at selected locations.
Can you view old maps from 2000 to 2005 in Google Maps or earth Very important please reply?
Google Maps doesn't allow you to see old imagery but using Google Earth you can enable historical imagery in the View menu and pick the time period in the time slider that appears.However, availability is location-specific so you may find imagery for a given year in one area and not another. Whenever Google updates its imagery typically the older imagery will become available under historical imagery.Historical imagery feature is not yet available for Street View imagery -- only satellite and aerial imagery.
Why won't Google Earth work?
Google Earth has tools you could use. You can type in an address and see the actual place, or you can search the world yourself by spinning the globe and zooming into locations.Also, click the link below for more on how it's done!AdditionallyGoogle Earth provides access to vast amounts of global satellite, aerial and street-level imagery that Google makes available to the public through high-end enterprise-grade data servers in Google's data centers. The Google Earth client basically acts as a specialized web browser that shows the results on a map and "bookmarks" or "favorites" are called Places.
Can you get real-time imagery in Google Earth?
Imagery and photos including Street view photos in Google Earth (or Google Maps) may appear real-time (or live) but it is NOT and often takes months of post processing before new imagery becomes available on Google Earth/Maps.This is one reason why you usually do not find any imagery younger than about 6 months in Google Earth/Maps. Updates usually happen about every 2-3 weeks and only to particular areas not the entire globe all at once.While the imagery is not real-time, Google is making some layers such as traffic and the cloud weather layer available near real-time and refreshed every few hours.There is also a new webcam layer integrated into Google Earth that can show "live" scenes at selected locations.Also, there are third party data feeds such as real-time flight tracking available.
How can you give updated information to Google Earth?
Google providers a data error reporting form (via website) to submit corrections to google's imagery, street names, directions, and so forth. By far the easiest way to provide updated information is through the new Google Map Maker tool. This allows you to directly move addresses to the correct location, change type of marker, etc. Submissions get reviewed and if approved get pushed back out to Google Earth and Google Maps.
