Google designed a new camera that weighs less than 15 pounds to make capturing more of the world easier.
Google Street View is celebrating 15 years of mapping by upgrading to a new camera and allowing us to easily travel back in time using our smartphones. New Street View Camera
We’ve all spotted at least one Google Street View car over the last decade and a half, but the company can’t always rely on four wheels and an engine to collect high-quality images.
«From the back of a camel in the Arabian desert to a snowmobile zipping through the Arctic, we’ve gotten creative with the ways we’ve used Street View cameras to capture imagery», Ethan Russell, director of product for Google Maps, wrote in a blog announcement. «And if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that our world changes at lightning speed.
