Remember Google’s Street View Trike? Well it seems that Google, now looking to offer “slope side” views of several winter Olympic events in Vancouver, has developed a “snowmobile decked out with cameras to capture slope-level imagery of several runs on the Whistler Blackcomb Mountains”. Google is compiling views of Vancouver and the 2010 [...]
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Tags: Google, Google Maps, Street View, trike, Winter Olympics 
1 Comment »Remember Google Street View, the ultra close up, panoramic imaging effort undertaken by the search giant to add another layer of detail to their Maps product? While the project has already spawned serious privacy concerns (http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/04/08/yet-another-google-maps-street-view-privacy-breach/), it not only continues, but is about to expand beyond just streets. We’re talking trails, paths, parks, zoos…anywhere a [...]
