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Google Trekker goes to the Grand Canyon, takes Street View souvenirs back home

Google Trekker goes to the Grand Canyon, takes Street View souvenirs back home

Company News Thursday, October 25, 2012: EngNet - Engineering Network

You might remember Google's unveiling this spring of the Street View Trekker, a seeming cross between a backpack and Van de Graaff generator that lets the mapping team produce 360-degree imagery where even trikes dare not tread. The portable camera ball is just going on its first trip, and Google has chosen the most natural destination for a novice tourist -- the Grand Canyon, of course. Staffers with Trekkers are currently walking trails along the South Rim of the canyon to provide both eye-level points of reference for wayward hikers as well as some breathtaking, controllable panoramas for those who can't (or won't) make it to Arizona. Once the photos make it to Street View sometime in the undefined near future, it'll be that much easier to turn down Aunt Matilda's 3-hour vacation slideshow.

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/24/google-trekker-goes-to-the-grand-canyon-takes-street-view-photos/