We know Google mounts car with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us streets. We know Google also mounts bicycles with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us streets where cars are not allowed to drive. But now Google also mounts snowmobiles with 360 degrees cameras and GPS to show us ski slopes in the mountains.
Rign on time, only several days before the official start of the winter olympics Google publishes street view images from Whistler Mountain and several other ski resorts around Vancouver.
Quote from the Google Blog:
The Street View team’s constant experimenting yielded a snowmobile decked out with cameras to capture slope-level imagery of several runs on Whistler Blackcomb Mountains. The view from the top of 7th Heaven chairlift on Blackcomb and from the peak of Whistler are among my favourites, as are the top of the Dave Murray downhill, where the men’s alpine skiing events will start, and the Peak 2 Peak gondola. (That’s Whistler’s new feat of engineering which takes skiers and riders from Whistler to Blackcomb.) With the Street View trike, we’ve also covered Whistler Village and Whistler Creekside at the mountains’ bases.
The Google Maps team also launched a new site, including all street view areas of ski slopes, for the Olympic Winter Games: www.google.com/games10
The only question left: Where else will be StreetView and do we need all this imagery?
Critical Statement: The next thing announced are indoor StreetViews in stores and shopping centers. Again a playground for marketing. I hope at least some places on planet earth will left blank on the StreetView Map.
[http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/02/street-view-hits-slopes-at-whistler.html]
