Google Street View Wants You to Direct New Tricycle Imager

An anonymous reader writes "Google is taking suggestions for where you'd like to see the new Street View Trike go. Your favorite park, hiking trail, zoo, school campus hangout or outdoor mall could be going online thanks to Google Street View's new 250 pound tricycle, complete with camera and GPS. According to the press release: 'The Street View trike began as a 20% project by Daniel Ratner, a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Street View team. "I began thinking about building a bicycle-based Street View system after realizing how many interesting places around the world — ranging from historic landmarks to beautiful trails to shopping districts — aren't accessible by car," says Dan. "When I'm riding the trike, so many people come up to me and ask where it's off to next or how they can get imagery of their favorite spot, so I can't wait to see what our users come up with."'"

Comments

SDSU

[Ethanol-fueled]

Whoa, there's an awesome streetview of San Diego State University in there!

I wonder if the camera is sensitive enough to see the classroom overcrowding, herpes under the skirts of sorority sisters, and traces of cocaine on the Homeland Security majors' noses!

Re:SDSU

[Anonymous Coward]

I like this one better

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=32.775852,-117.07178&panoid=DdCGuMJzJOh7VmC9kd_AZQ&cbp=12,356.73,,2,6.88&ll=32.776017,-117.071772&spn=0,359.98513&z=16

Places not to go

[cromar]

Your favorite park, hiking trail, zoo, school campus hangout or outdoor mall could be going online thanks to Google Street View...

All of my favorite places (especially hiking trails) would be way on the bottom of my list of things they should photo. Call me selfish, but a lot of my favorite places are places I can go to get away from people, and I'd like to share them as little as possible :)

Re:Places not to go

[Anonymous Coward]

I say the first place we should go is this guy's hiking trials.

the grand canyon

[mydots]

how about a mule rig with all the cameras climbing down (or up) the grand canyon.

brilliant!

[elloGov]

Playboy mansion

Re:Famous Parks

[MyDixieWrecked]

New York - Central Park

I actually just saw one of these guys today at Rockefeller Center:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spike666/4017224220/

In a Canoe

[lazarus]

Throw the thing into a canoe and start mapping waterways. Some of the most amazing scenery in the world is only accessible by water (still). If people saw it on-line perhaps they would be motivated to rent a canoe or kayak and get out on the water.

Practically, that thing won't fit in a canoe (unless it is a voyageur canoe), you would probably need the camera mounted on some sort of steadycam, and your going to have to pay attention to battery life. But I think that would be a very cool project.