If the thought of Google Street View cars driving through your hometown and photographing your house (ablaze or not) is unnerving, how do you feel about Google logging the woods behind your house? Or pedaling through your botanical garden?
Too late--that's where Google's going!
In 2009, Google introduced the Google Trike, a 250-pound, 9-foot-long, 7-foot-high bicycle equipped with the same terrain-charting cameras that deck out its Street View cars. The idea behind the Google Trike is to scope out locations where cars can't go, such as parks, trails, university campuses, pedestrian malls, zoos, and other landmarks.
Now Google has released loads of new images taken from the Trike, such as the Château de Chenonceaux in Civray-de-Touraine, France and the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin. The pictures are accessible through Google Street View.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/221028/
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Too late--that's where Google's going!
In 2009, Google introduced the Google Trike, a 250-pound, 9-foot-long, 7-foot-high bicycle equipped with the same terrain-charting cameras that deck out its Street View cars. The idea behind the Google Trike is to scope out locations where cars can't go, such as parks, trails, university campuses, pedestrian malls, zoos, and other landmarks.
Now Google has released loads of new images taken from the Trike, such as the Château de Chenonceaux in Civray-de-Touraine, France and the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin. The pictures are accessible through Google Street View.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/221028/
