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Google's Amazon River Street View Project

Posted by samzenpus on from the turn-right-at-the-capybara dept.

Thanks to Google and the Foundation for a Sustainable Amazon (FAS), your days of paddling up and down the Amazon basin looking for a fishing camp are over. Google is expanding its Street View service to cover a 30-mile section of the Rio Negro River tributary from Manaus to Terra Preta. FAS project leader Gabriel Ribenboim said, "It is very important to show the world not only the environment and the way of life of the traditional population, but to sensitize the world to the challenges of climate change, deforestation and combating poverty."

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  1. Easy! by aglider · · Score: 2

    This means the Google is entering deeper and deeper into Amazon.

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  2. 0.01 % done ! by mbone · · Score: 2

    30 miles down, 30,000+ miles to go. (The Amazon is 4000 miles long, but is divided into many tributaries, the total length of all the tributaries is probably a lot longer than that, but I think that is a safe lower bound.)

  3. Moscow-Vladivostok by moonbender · · Score: 2

    In a somewhat similar vein, in 2010, Google published the look out of the window of the Trans Siberian Railway: http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

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