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Jonathan Chang, 27, rides the Google Street View trike around Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto. (Amber Hildebrandt/CBC News) |
After photographing cities around the world with its fleet of camera-mounted cars for Google Street View, it is now deploying tricycles to tackle locations otherwise inaccessible.
"Basically this gets us off the roads and onto trails, university campuses, hopefully theme parks, places like that, that let people experience and really get inside those places on Google Maps," says Mike Pegg, a senior product marketing manager with Google.
Unlike the cars traversing publicly accessible streets, the harder-to-reach locations targeted by the trike are often located on private property and require special permission to photograph.
Google didn't immediately reveal specific locations photographed by the camera-mounted trike in Canada, saying it was still awaiting permission to release details about the private locations.
The company later released a list of 17 locations visited in Toronto and in nearby areas, including Toronto Island, Canada's Wonderland, Hamilton's McMaster University and a number of conservation areas.
