Panoramic Swampscott on the Google Street View Map

Swampscott has been getting on the map more and more of late — considering its place in a couple major motion pictures.

Now the Google Maps Street View Car is going to refine the way map searchers look at Swampscott.

Swampscott resident and took these photos of the Google car Thursday morning shortly before 11 near Puritan and Humphrey.

Google's Street View Car program launched in 2007.

"When we first started Street View as an experimental project, we packed several computers into the back of an SUV, stuck cameras, lasers, and a GPS device on top, and drove around collecting our first imagery," according to the Google Street View site. "Since Street View launched for five U.S. cities in May 2007, we've expanded our 360-degree panoramic views to include locations on all seven continents."

The latest car has 15 lenses taking 360 degrees of photos and motion sensors to track its position, a hard drive to store data, a small computer running the system, and lasers to capture 3D data to determine distances within the Street View imagery, the website states.

The technology is featured in Google Maps and Google Earth and "provides panoramic views from positions along many streets in the world," according to Wikipedia.

This Google Street View Car is making sure Swampscott is on the map in the latest panoramic fashion.