Bicycle Google Street View Capture The North
by Andrew Redfern @ 14th July 2009 10:18 am
Despite getting-off to a somewhat shakey start, Google street view has proven to be a hit with users and businesses alike. Privacy concerns seemingly forgotten about Google have decided to take a more polarised set of image, targetting famous and somewhat inacessible land marks.
So how can they achieve it? they cant very well drive a 4X4 around sone henge! With a bicycle of course. Not so much a pro-green statement by the ever increasingly “green” Google but the only way up close images of our nations landmarkings can be photographed .
Google have trasnferred the technology to a specialy adapted trike. The the wheeled machine provides stabillity and the disbursement of the additional weight of the camera and computer equipment.
“Off-road, Google must show even greater respect for privacy that on the street,” said Tom Brake MP, the Liberal Democrats’ home affairs spokesman. “If they don’t, they may capture more than they bargained for as they pedal silently along our remotest lanes and cycleways.”
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