
"We’ve had many requests for these images since the earthquake and we’re so glad we can now make them available. “Buildings, roads and natural places have changed, in some cases dramatically, since the earthquake," he says. The feature was announced at the Canterbury Museum by Anthony Baxter from Google’s Crisis Response team, who said the new imagery helps provide a digital archive of Christchurch.

From today, people will also be able to see pre-quake imagery and compare how the city looked before and after.

Kiwis can now go back in time to see how their streets and neighbourhoods are changing with the help of historical Street View imagery, a new feature of Google Maps.Ĭurrently Google Maps shows post-quake street-level imagery for many parts of Christchurch.
