Google Street View scale the summit of Mount Fuji. But mania is Shining - The Messenger

ROME – After exploring the Colosseum, Venice and the most extraordinary places in the world, Street View arrives on the summit of Mount Fuji. Spectacular images (at least 14 thousand) were captured by a special robot- Trekker: offer a 360 degree virtual tour on Google maps with Street View application as happened recently with the Eiffel Tower, where the images were captured thanks to the so-called Trolley.

The virtual tour. A Trekker, the special robot used by Google, has come all the 3,776 meters in height. Google Blog we report the tracking of the path Yoshida, leading to the summit and the walk around the crater and down to the zig-zag to the base camp.

Google Street View has been engaged for some time in the map of Japan with the Unesco heritage Himeji castle, the ancient village of Shirakawa-go, the forests of Yakushima, the Ogasawara Islands and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. From SUV to the robot. In 2007, Google was able to map virtual tour city in U.S. cities. At that time they used an SUV on which were fixed cameras, laser scanners and a GPS device. The Panoramic venenro then expanded to include 360 ??locations on all continents. Inside the New York Restaurants. From July 22 you can explore the restaurants of New York with Google Maps . The project, launched at t he Restaurant Week in the Big Apple, involving 167 restaurants.

WANTED hikers for Street View. days ago on the official blo Google appeared the ads: “Today we are launching a project that allows third-party organizations to use the Street View Trekker and to contribute to the database of images of Google Maps. For the first time ever, this program will allow third parties to use our equipment to take 360 ??degree photos of the places I know best, at the same time helping to make Google Maps more comprehensive and useful for everyone. This program is just one part of our aim to make it possible for anyone to contribute to Google Maps. ” In practice cercanop people able to wear a backpack special Viev the Street Trekker, and prepare projects to provide to Google.

Mania Shining. For some time, some companies are having fun to realize real scenes of the film inside their offices. It ‘s the case of Ideasbymusic who wanted to pay homage to Kubrick and his Shining.
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