Google Trike Goes Where Google StreeView Cannot!

Oct 17, 2009 by Abbas

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Google is no less than Apple’s App Store, here is why! Its not possible for Google’s street view cars to go into the narrow lanes, etc.. Well, “There is an App Idea for that”.

Google blog today showed pictures of a tricycle loaded with cameras that takes pictures in the places cars and other vehicles cannot, like, Universities, Theme Parks, Landmarks, etc..

Google trike is the brain child of a mechanical engineer on Google’s street view team. He came up with the idea of putting the cameras on a bicycle to make place accessible which were otherwise not accessible to the team.

For example here is one place where the street view car couldn’t have gone but the new trike did. The street view team has also put up a page where you can suggest places where trike should scan the area.

These suggestions will be shortlisted and put up for public voting. Google street view guys will then visit the places suggested by the winners in each category to scan the area.

Nominations are open for US locations only. 28th of October is the last day of nominations.

Places can be suggested under the following categories.