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Thursday, 10 November 2011

Google Street View Cameras Map The Amazon

Google has used a pedal-powered tricycle to start photographing the vast Amazon rainforest as part of its global Street View facility.

As a result internet users around the world will only be clicks away from travelling through rivers and remote inhabited areas of Brazil.

The project used a white tricycle equipped with panoramic 3D cameras and a boat to take snapshots of a small stretch of the world's biggest tropical forest.

Navigating down the Rio Negro river, a boat with the tricycle on top took thousands of shots of the jungle and its residents.   Full Read

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