Oct 24, 2012 at 11:16am ET by Greg Sterling
Having driven literally hundreds of thousands of miles of surface streets and roads throughout the world, Google is increasingly going off road in its quest to make Street View comprehensive. Most recently the company took its on-foot Street View backpack cameras to the Grand Canyon in Arizona.Google is hiking the various trails that descend into the Canyon and onto the floor of the great national park. According to the company’s Lat-Long Blog:
Currently there are lots of still photographs (via Panoramio) of the Canyon available on Google Maps. Most of those are views of the Canyon taken from the rim. The “descent into the Canyon” imagery, combined with the interactivity Street View enables, should be pretty interesting when it becomes available. No ETA on that yet.
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About The Author: Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes a personal blog Screenwerk, about SoLoMo issues and connecting the dots between online and offline. He also posts at Internet2Go, which is focused on the mobile Internet. Follow him @gsterling. See more articles by Greg Sterling
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This is cool….but when are they ever going to do Venice? Seems like it’d be more popular and more useful to have street views there. Today, all they’ve got is the parking area right after the bridge to Venice from the mainland.
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