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Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-fallout-map dept.

mdsolar writes in with news that Goolge has released Street View pictures from inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima disaster. "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. Google, operator of the world's biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town's mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement. All of Namie's 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world's worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."

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  1. Direct link by Raven737 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Direkt link to the google maps/streatview

  2. Ghostery highscores... by Cow+Jones · · Score: 4, Informative

    The linked page on businessweek.com contains no less than 13 trackers:

    ChartBeat
    Disqus
    DoubleClick
    Dynamic Logic
    Facebook Connect
    ForeSee
    Google Adsense
    Google Analytics
    Krux Digital
    New Relic
    ScoreCard Research Beacon
    Taboola
    Twitter Button

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