Introduced earlier this year, Google’s latest service, Street View, provides photographs of Britain’s streets using car-mounted cameras. Now, though, it’s getting its bike out of the Google bike shed and will be heading off-road.
It’s actually a modified tricycle with the 3D Street View camera technology mounted between the rear axle and sitting up high above the riders head. This will enable the company to photograph interesting tourist spots such as Stonehenge, which previously were inaccessible by its car-mounted cameras.
The roll-out of the small fleet of tricycles has been beset by recent bad weather, so as soon as the sun is out the tricycles will be rolling around many of Britain’s famous landmarks. The spots it will visit have been chosen in a public poll.
Places the cameras will visit include Stonehenge, Millennium Stadium, Angel of the North, Eden Project, Loch Ness, Warwick Castle and Bamburgh Castle. If you see it, let us know…
