Google Now Crowdsourcing Street View With A Trike

Elmore Furth

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Sat Oct-17-09 09:45 PM
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Google Now Crowdsourcing Street View With A Trike

Edited on Sat Oct-17-09 09:46 PM by Elmore Furth

An exercise-friendly, carbon-friendly way to do Google mapping. Cooool.

Seriously. Google engineer Dan Ratner has strapped a camera to a tricycle and has been tooling around the Santa Monica Pier, San Diego State University and LegoLand California, taking pictures for Google Maps.

God, that looks fun -- in the same way that it looked fun when Forrest Gump ran across country, but to each his own.

Google is asking users to suggest "exactly where in the U.S. they'd like the trike to go next. Go to this trike site to suggest trails and other places you want the trike to travel and snap photos.

Apparently, this was hot, hot stuff in the U.K., where Google received more than 10,000 nominations and 35,000 votes.

Google Now Crowdsourcing Street View With A Trike

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Capn Sunshine

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Sat Oct-17-09 09:48 PM
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1. cool...but he better stay the hell out of Kentucky with that thing

residents of Appalachia will burn him as a witch

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