Google Street View Uses Tricycles to Put Nunavut on its Map
Cambridge Bay, Nunavut — The Canadian Press
Published Thursday, Aug. 23 2012, 10:29 AM EDT
Stephen Harper’s not the only one who wants to put the Arctic on the map.
As Harper’s northern tour touched down in Nunavut, a team from search engine giant Google was already on the ground.
They’re working with residents of Cambridge Bay to add elements of their community to Google maps while at the same time fixing past mistakes.
The team was invited to the tiny community by a local technology expert who had attended a Google mapping seminar in Vancouver.
They’d hoped to use a specially-created tricycle to navigate the communities roads in order to take images for the maps.
“We very quickly realized both last September and during our planning that the base map of Google wasn’t very good for these communities,” said Google’s Karin Tuxen-Bettman.
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