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rockhillmanor
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Jul 26, 2013

Google Mounts Camera on Man's head to map Florida Beaches!!

You've seen those google cars with 20 cameras mounted all over for google maps?

Well now they are mounted on people's heads!!!! :B



Florida's beaches first in world to be mapped by Google
GO FLORIDA!

""Google is mapping Florida's 825 miles of beaches with its unique Street View Trekker technology.

The Trekker is a camera with 15 lenses that takes 360-degree images every two-and-a-half seconds.

The camera is about the size of a basketball and is mounted on a wearable, 40-pound backpack.

Google has loaned two Trekker cameras to Florida. Kevin McGeever of Visit Florida said now two teams of two people are walking the

entire length of the coastline

to get the pictures.""
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/article/321420/4/Floridas-beaches-first-in-world-to-be-mapped-by-Google

Now's probably not a good time to take that 'other' girlfriend to the beach until they are done taking pictures of them! :W

24 Replies

  • I think it is kind of neat, but I will probably not use it. Of course, I don't use Google much anyway. I did note that the street view for our house is at least 6 years old based on the vehicles in the yard, but the overhead is less than a year based on the vehicles I can see.

    One thing is for sure, these teams should be in pretty good shape at the end of the project with them walking 50 miles per week.
  • I think Google needs to concentrate more on updating the images that they already have, I know there are Street views that haven't been updated in over 6 years, + not all public roads are on street view.
    Plus a lot of the overhead view resolutions are lousy.

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