Google's Street View trike rides into Canada
Beginning of Story ContentJulio Tang often gets mistaken for an ice cream vendor when he rides the Google Street View tricycle with its bulky white box on the back.
"That happens all the time," says Tang. "They think that you're an ice cream truck and then they get closer and realize it's a Google trike."
But there's no disappointment at the revelation, says Tang. Instead people "actually get more excited" and begin waving in hopes of being captured for posterity on the company's famous panoramic map views.
Off the beaten trackAfter photographing cities around the world with its fleet of camera-mounted cars, Google is now deploying the tricycles to tackle locations otherwise inaccessible.
"Basically this gets us off the roads and onto trails, university campuses, hopefully theme parks, places like that, that let people experience and really get inside those places on Google Maps," says Mike Pegg, a senior product marketing manager with Google.
Toronto-area sites slated for a visit by the Google trike: Toronto Island. Black Creek Pioneer Village. Canada's Wonderland. Rouge Park. McMaster University, Hamilton. Albion Hills Campground, Caledon. Albion Hills Conservation Area. Bathurst Glen Golf Course, Richmond Hill Boyd Conservation Area, Vaughan, Bruce's Mill Conservation Area, Stouffville. Claireville Conservation Area, Brampton. Glen Haffy Conservation Area, Caledon. Glen Rouge Campground, Toronto. Heart Lake Conservation Area, Brampton. Indian Line Campground, Brampton. Kortright Centre for Conservation, Woodbridge. Petticoat Creek Conservation Area, Pickering."For people who are looking to plan a trip to Canada, tourists to Canada, people that live in a community, it gives people an opportunity to see what's in that place," adds Pegg.
Landmarks captured by Google's trikes around the world include Rome's Colosseum and England's Stonehenge.
Jon Bunning, who recently moved to Toronto from the U.K., came out to see the Google trike at Yonge-Dundas Square on Tuesday to check out its gadgetry, but also to find out where the vehicle will travel.
"I'd like to …show it to my friends, encourage them to come visit me," says Bunning. "These are the things that get people to spend the cash to come from England, to come pay me a visit."
Team effortFor the past two months, Toronto friends Tang, 24, and Jonathan Chang, 27 — the duo applied for the job as a team, as required — have been cycling locations off the beaten track across the Greater Toronto Area. Over the next couple months, their work will continue in the Toronto area and separate crews will photograph Vancouver and potentially other cities as well.
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