How to Know When the Google Street View Car Is Coming to Your Area

Curious when a Google Street View car will drive down your street, whether to get your storefront updated, replace years-old imagery of your house, or just catch the car in action? Google publishes a rough schedule of where its Street View cars are driving each month. It won’t give an exact date for your street, but it tells you which areas are being mapped. This guide shows how to find it and what you can do if you want your imagery updated or blurred.

Quick Answer

Go to Google’s Street View site at google.com/streetview/how-it-works and scroll to Where we are mapping this month. Choose your country and region to see a list of districts and date ranges where Street View cars are expected to operate.

Check the Street View Driving Schedule

1. Open google.com/streetview/how-it-works in a browser.
2. Scroll to the section Where we are mapping this month.
3. Select your country from the first drop-down, then your region (state or province).
4. Click View districts if needed to see the full list.
5. Read the Date and District columns. Date ranges often span several months.

What the Schedule Does and Doesn’t Tell You

• It shows broad areas, such as a county or metro area, not individual streets.
• Nearby towns may be included: Google notes that cars may also visit smaller cities and towns within driving distance of listed areas.
• Plans change: Weather, road closures, and other factors can delay or cancel drives.
• Imagery takes time to appear: After a car drives by, it can take months for new images to be processed and published.

See When Your Street Was Last Photographed

1. Open Google Maps and drag the yellow Pegman onto your street (or tap the street in the app and open Street View).
2. Look for the capture date in the top-left box (“Image capture: Month Year”) or at the bottom of the screen.
3. Click See more dates to browse older imagery. See our guide to viewing old Google Street View images.

Want Updated Imagery Sooner?

• You can’t request a car visit. Google doesn’t take requests to drive specific streets.
• Businesses: Add photos to your Business Profile, or hire a photographer for interior 360° tours.
• Contribute your own: You can publish 360° photos of places to Google Maps with a compatible camera, but they appear as user photos, not official Street View.

Blur Your House, Car, or Face

Google automatically blurs faces and license plates. To request extra blurring of your home, car, or yourself:

1. Open the Street View image of the location.
2. Click Report a problem (bottom-right on a computer, or the three-dot menu in the app).
3. Position the red box over what you want blurred, choose what it is (for example, My home), explain why, and submit.

Blurring is permanent and applies to future imagery too, so it can’t be undone later.

Summary

1. Visit google.com/streetview/how-it-works.
2. Open Where we are mapping this month and filter by country and region.
3. Expect broad areas and date ranges, not exact streets or days.
4. Use Report a problem in Street View to request blurring.