Google maps Amazon rainforest

[Jazzy]

The team deployed to map the area by the technology giant have been travelling by boat and bike, armed with cameras, to collect panoramic images of the location and communities who live there.



Google has partnered with the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS), which aims to promote awareness of the area’s diversity, to get footage of the endangered rainforest.



It has also employed some of the local indigenous people to pedal Google’s tricycles around their communities, which have cameras attached to them, in order to capture images of the different groups of people inhabiting the Amazon.



Once all the images are uploaded to the internet, we can share the local culture and beauty of the Amazon with anyone, anywhere in the world. Without the vision, creativity and dedication of our partners, this endeavour would not be possible, said Karin Tuxen-Bettman, the head of the Street View team in the Amazon.



Google’s last really ambitious StreetView project was charting Antarctica and producing an interactive tour of the area.



It is not yet known how long the Amazon project will take.



Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8708942/Google-maps-Amazon-rainforest.html



I think this is awesome and can't wait to see the Amazon Rainforest. Would you like to see it too?

 

[Jazzy]

I would love to go and see the Amazon Rainforest. Perhaps, one day I might be able to get there. In the meantime, I hope they hurry up and finish this project!

 

[Sinon]

Nice idea, but it seems like a waste of money. Not to mention many of the inhabitants of the rainforest don't have any interaction with the outside. Seems a bit rude to just float in taking photos. Especially when our western culture provides valid reason to arrest somebody if they happen to take a photograph of a child.

 

[Evil Eye]

Know your enemy. Google's going to conquer the world!

Nice idea, but it seems like a waste of money.

Well... Google has plenty of that.