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Google’s Street View shows off-road photos
Friday, 18 March 2011 14:35

Google's StrGoogle’s Street View shows off-road photoseet View is ready to present new pictures for us as it is travels off-road. You will be able to see gardens and parks thanks to the trike, which is pedal-powered.

Google’s fresh Street View images have been posted recently. You will not find noisy intersections on them, the pictures show mainly rustic trails and well-groomed gardens. Due to the “trike”, which goes off-road, Google’s Street View is not limited to streets any more.The Trike was introduced in 2009. This is a customized bicycle equipped with Street View gear, in order to go to these places and embrace the castles with towers alongside with the pleasing gardens. Jeremy Pack, who works as a software engineer in Google informed us about it in a blog entry. 

The Trike team was very busy making pictures throughout the globe and contributed extraordinary photos after pedaling in different countries. Therefore Google Maps became more diverse nowadays.  Google has habitually used motorized means of transport to get the 360-degree pictures that are posted then to Street View. The trike presents a tricycle with 3 wheels because its goal is to go to remote places where motor vehicles are not able to get.

 

Among the first samples given are Château de Chenonceaux in Civray-de-Touraine in France, California gardens of the San Diego Art Institute and, the National Botanic Gardens which are located in Dublin.Street View wants to include 360-degree pictures of different places within Google Maps. The program, which works in 7 countries now, seemed rather controversial,  and was unveiled not long ago after Street View transport received information from Wi-Fi networks. Google expressed regret and has established that the breaches were unintentional. In spite of it some countries,  as well as the U.S.A, started investigating the work of  Google’s Street View. Israel also said in recent times that it was conducting work with Google to let Street View transport to take pictures of its streets regardless of security concerns.