Google brings street view to the Grand Canyon

Jan 31, 2013, 10:53am PST

Google brings Street View to the Grand Canyon (and soon everywhere else)

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Google's Street View team hiked more than 75 miles in and around the Grand Canyon, capturing 9,500 panoramic photos on the trail. (Click above for more.)

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By Luke Stangel

Google unveiled its next leap forward for Street View today, uploading some 9,500 high-resolution panoramic photos of the Grand Canyon. It was the first real-world test of Trekker, the company’s new 40-pound Street View backpack.
Google plans to use Trekker backpacks to map the rest of the U.S. National Parks, notable cultural monuments and other places where its cars, tricycles and snowmobiles can’t go.
Google engineers spent more than a year perfecting the Trekker, taking prototypes out on weekend hikes around the Bay Area. In late October, a small team of Googlers took three Trekker backpacks into the Grand Canyon, marking the gadget’s toughest trial yet.
The group mapped more than 75 miles of trails in and around the Grand Canyon, opening up the Bright Angel and South Kalibab trails, Colorado River and Meteor Crater to millions of people on the Internet.
Check out the new Street View photos here. And view some of our favorite shots in the slideshow at right.

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