Capture the World With a Borrowed Google Trekker Backpack

Steve Silverman, anoperationsManager on the Street sketchteam, poses with the Trekker on the luridAngel Trail at the Grand Canyon. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired

Steve Silverman, an Operations Manager on the Street View team, poses with the Trekker on the Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired

If you’re heading to a remote locale not yet captured by Google’subiquitousStreet View cameras, you can volunteer to document the conniptionusing one of Google’s own Trekker backpacks.

The Trekker is a compact variationof the same tech used in Google’s Street View cars. The pièce de résistance is a 15-lens camera, mounted atop a spire-like appendage, that can sire46MP images.

Until recently, only Google and select third parties got the opportunity to strap on a Trekker, but now interested organizations can playout a form to line up for a chance at borrowing one. If you snap top-notch stuff, Google may agreeyour work to its Street View collection, which includes the Galapagos and the Grand Canyon.

It doesn’t look similarany old Joe go outbe able to arrogatea Trekker, though. Google lists example organizations such as non-profits, tourism boards, authoritiesagencies, universities or research groups as appropriate targets for the Trekker loaning program. Still, it entrustbe fascinating to see where Street View will be able to head with these groups — the bubbling crater of a volcano? Mayan ruins? Deep inside stalactite-filled caves?

Wired got to go hands-on with one of Google’s Trekkers during a venture through the Grand Canyon last October.

via The Verge

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