This tutorial is part 11 of the OSINT At Home series. The tutorial is an explainer of some of the great ways to view imagery from the street, including Google Street View as well as some of the great alternatives.

Street view applications and sites are a great resource for research in locations and seeing what places look like on the ground. Whether you’re looking to confirm a geolocation you might have done, looking to identify what things might be in an area or whether you’re just curious to see what other pockets of the world look like – street view tools can be extremely useful.

The tutorial specifically covers using Google Street View and how to use Google Street View, as well as how to view past street view images to see how places have changed over the past. The tutorial also covers Apple Street View, Mapillary, Yandex Maps, Baidu Maps and Karta View.

For those looking to explore street view to see a much bigger slice of the world, do check out the street view game GeoGuessr https://www.geoguessr.com/

The OSINT At Home series is useful for those looking to find digital breadcrumbs and pick up some methods of open source intelligence (OSINT), digital investigations and good old plain research. No matter who you are, or where you are in the world, you can follow these tutorials from home with publicly available information to answer questions such as who, what, where and when.

TOOLS
Google Street View: https://www.google.com/maps
Apple Maps: https://www.apple.com/maps
Mapillary: https://www.mapillary.com
Yandex: https://www.yandex.com/maps
Baidu: https://www.map.baidu.com
KartaView: https://www.kartaview.org

MORE RESOURCES
KeyFindings: https://keyfindings.blog/2018/12/03/%...
Bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/...
OffBeatResearch: https://offbeatresearch.com/2020/06/a...

MY SETUP:
Apple Macbook Pro 16inch: https://amzn.to/3rTWhW3
Logitech MX Anywhere 2 mouse: https://amzn.to/3phQp7v
Blue Yeti USB microphone: https://amzn.to/3ajixmb

CREDITS FOR THIS TUTORIAL
Imagery: Google Maps, Apple, Mapillary, Baidu, Yandex, OpenStreetView
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