Google Street View Backpack Now Available To Volunteers

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 30, 2013 @05:33AM from the salt-mines-of-poland dept.

It's not just for obscure Japanese islands anymore: reader NobleSavage writes with news that "If you're a tourism board, non-profit, university, research organization or other third party who can gain access and help collect imagery of hard to reach places, you can apply to borrow the Trekker and help map the world." You can also help map the world (albeit without the very neat Trekker backpack cam) without an application process via OpenStreetMap. But if you had access to a panoramic camera like this, what places or spaces would you want to capture? I hope there will be street view imagery of Petra, but I don't see any yet.

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Uhmm.. Chernobyl? by Hemi+Rodner · 2013-06-30 05:38 · Score: 5, Interesting

I want to see Chernobyl please.

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Pitcairn Islands by dwheeler · 2013-06-30 05:50 · Score: 4, Interesting

I want to see the Pitcairn Islands. It's notorious hard to get to, and it ensures that the sun never sets on the British empire.

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