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Google Street View Backpack Now Available To Volunteers

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Uhmm.. Chernobyl? by Hemi+Rodner · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I want to see Chernobyl please.

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    hemi
  2. Re:What a coincidence... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You shoot someone just because they are on your property and you'll end up in jail faster than you think. Most states have defense laws against aggressive behavior but if you shoot someone who accidentally wanders into your property and your looking at charges. You have a right to defend yourself and your property not just kill someone because they touched your land.

  3. Time and work for free by loufoque · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So essentially Google want people to give some of their time for free in addition of taking ownership of the work they'd be doing?
    I doubt volunteers want to give the IP of their work to Google so that they can monetize it.

  4. Google is not a charity by s7uar7 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I started using Map Maker when it was released here in the UK a couple of months ago. I stopped when I questioned why I was giving my time, knowledge and expertise to a private company for free.