17 February
Google Trikes Make Their Way Round South Africa….and World Cup Stadiums!
Google Street View trikes arrived in South Africa in November last year, when they started collecting imagery of historic landmarks, heritage sites, scenic panoramas and sports venues around the country. South African Tourism compiled a list of 20 special locations on which the public voted. As a result, Google’s Street View team has been visiting the places that the South African public really wanted them to cover, everywhere from Soweto to Kruger National Park, and from Blyde River Canyon to the Kirstenbosch Gardens.
The Google trikers have been met with excitement from those they’ve crossed paths with along the way, including tourists who’ve said how useful they’ve found Street View for planning their holidays elsewhere. Street View is not always the first thing that comes to mind when seeing the Trikes though…in fact, in Kirstenbosch Gardens, a group of schoolchildren were convinced that the Trikers were actually ice-cream men!
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February 17th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
That’s pretty cool!
March 19th, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Rad, havent come across these, but did run into their other environmentally friendly camera carriers, the prius: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5427524&l=9d4230b5b4&id=738515855
March 30th, 2010 at 12:57 pm
[...] sites. Last year the South African public voted on the country’s most popular tourist sites for Google’s Street View Trikes campaign that ran in conjunction with SA Tourism – as reported on our Africa [...]
May 9th, 2010 at 7:19 am
Very useful world cup list. Bookmarked. Thanks for it!