The German "geo-novel" ''[[Senghor on the Rocks]]'' (2008) presents its story as a series of spreads showing a Google Maps location on the left and the story's text on the right. Annika Richterich explains that the "satellite pictures in ''Senghor on the Rocks'' illustrate the main character's travel through the West-African state of [[Senegal]]".<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Richterich |first=Annika |date=November 2011 |title=Cartographies of Digital Fiction: Amateurs Mapping a New Literary Realism |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1743277411Y.0000000021 |journal=The Cartographic Journal |language=en |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=237–249 |doi=10.1179/1743277411Y.0000000021 |bibcode=2011CartJ..48..237R |s2cid=131524536 |issn=0008-7041 |access-date=October 16, 2022 |archive-date=October 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020185038/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1743277411Y.0000000021 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Artists have used Google StreetViewStreet View in a range of ways. [[Emilio Vavarella|Emilio Vavarella's]] ''The Google Trilogy'' includes glitchy images and unintended portraits of the drivers of the Street View cars.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-04-18 |title=THE GOOGLE TRILOGY - E M I L I O V A V A R E L L A |url=https://emiliovavarella.com/google-trilogy/ |access-date=2022-10-16 |language=en |archive-date=October 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016170850/https://emiliovavarella.com/google-trilogy/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Japanese band [[group inou]] used Google StreetViewStreet View backgrounds to make a music video for their song EYE.<ref>{{Cite web |last=group_inou |date=2016-04-14 |title=EYE (music video) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSFeje8-4Vc |website=YouTube |access-date=October 16, 2022 |archive-date=October 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016170849/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSFeje8-4Vc |url-status=live }}</ref> The Canadian band [[Arcade Fire]] made a customized music video that used StreetViewStreet View to show the viewer their own childhood home.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Arcade Fire |last2=Milk |first2=Chris |date=2011 |title=The Wilderness Downtown |url=http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=The Wilderness Downtown |archive-date=October 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016170848/http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Arcade Fire |date=2011 |title=Video documentation of Wilderness Within video |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80723A_lqsA |website=YouTube |access-date=October 16, 2022 |archive-date=October 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016170847/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80723A_lqsA |url-status=live }}</ref>
