Google now offers you the ability to take your own photos and upload them to Street View, helping you fill in the gaps in Google's photographic mosaic of the world or update old photos.

With the updated Street View app on an Android phone, you can simply hold up your phone, walk down the street and take photos. Behind the scenes, Google uses augmented reality and your phone’s positioning data to automatically align all the images with existing Street View images.

“Now that anyone can take their own connected Street View photos, we’re able to bring better maps to more people around the world by capturing places that aren’t on Google Maps or that are rapidly changing,” writes Stafford Marquardt, a Street View product manager. “All you need is a smartphone — no special equipment required.”

In a world where you can climb Yosemite’s El Capitan on Street View, it seems like the only places not covered by Google’s all-encompassing photo project are ultra-remote, uninhabited areas. But sometimes, locals just won’t have it. The English Channel Island of Guernsey, an English-speaking territory off the coast of France, refuses to let Street View go live. In 2010 and ’11, locals vandalized Google Street View cameras and local authorities blocked its publication. To this day, there is no Street View on the island.