Do You Like Google Street View? Now You Can Contribute To The World With The "Trekker' Pack - Polidicks

[IMG]http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/streams/2013/June/130628/6C8075725-trekker.blocks_desktop_medium.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]The Trekker camera backpack at work.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Google has been making much of its Street View feature coming to remote and inaccessible places like Antarctica and trails in national parks. But if you think a local feature needs the walk-through Google treatment, the company might be convinced to let you use its equipment to capture it yourself. Google is kicking off a pilot program in which it plans to lend the [URL="http://www.google.com/help/maps/streetview/learn/cars-trikes-and-more.html#trekker"]"Trekker" backpack-mounted camera system[/URL] to individuals and organizations who think they have something to add to the map. [/QUOTE] [video=youtube;SuiEmxDklKw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiEmxDklKw[/video] [URL]http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/google-street-view-create-one-yourself-loaner-trekker-pack-6C10486980[/URL]

Don't fall.

This is a really cool idea.

Applied, I live on a lake in Michigan and I'm 5 minutes away from Manistee-huron national forest which has some really sweet trails.

To boldly go where no Google Maps car has gone before.

google's taking over the world ...one step at a time

So now we can go from street view to INSIDE the buildings! Noice.

if i bought one of these i would just go to the nearest forest and do a grid and then wait for it to be uploaded and then go on google maps and see all the pictures i made

Someone should take one of these on a Chernobyl/Pripyat tour

[img]http://www.google.com/help/maps/streetview/images/trekker.png[/img] back mounted deadpool.

[QUOTE=MenteR;41232503]google's taking over the world ...one step at a time[/QUOTE] To be honest, the world always was and still is controlled. There won't ever be a time where it isn't, there only is the belief of the world not being controlled. If I should make it as simplistic as possible, the world since some time has been leaving the control to money, and still is.

Now I never have to leave my house to enjoy far-off places!

I was thinking it was more of an app that uses a camera phone to travel, but that works too.

[QUOTE=PaChIrA;41233212]Someone should take one of these on a Chernobyl/Pripyat tour[/QUOTE] north korea

Iwata got one of these a while ago, I think he mapped most of the US Nintendo HQ [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HAiz6xs.jpg[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Sobek-;41232985]So now we can go from street view to INSIDE the buildings! Noice.[/QUOTE] Has been done already, check out some places in Japan and popular cities

[QUOTE=latin_geek;41233660]Iwata got one of these a while ago, I think he mapped most of the US Nintendo HQ [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HAiz6xs.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] I want Nintendo to make a game where you play as Iwata and you walk around Nintendo of America HQ zapping aliens with the camera thingy.

Not going for self-depreciative humor, but if I didn't stay inside all day, I'd totally do this. I'd love to help technology improve.

[QUOTE=Best4bond;41233700]I want Nintendo to make a game where you play as Iwata and you walk around Nintendo of America HQ zapping aliens with the camera thingy.[/QUOTE] super iwata sunshine

I would do this if I could justify it with more than two tiny parks in my vicinity

[QUOTE=latin_geek;41233660]Iwata got one of these a while ago, I think he mapped most of the US Nintendo HQ [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HAiz6xs.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] The twist is, he is doing mocap for Mario Sunshine 2. [U][B]EVIDENCE [/B][/U][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IW0gGLf.png[/IMG]

Should do one for my uni..

Imagine all the bitches you would get with that

If this was a paid gig, my mother in law would be all over this like a bad rash. She's 60 and does 400km++ walks for pleasure whenever she's travelling with her 70 year old husband.

[QUOTE=Warship;41236997]Imagine all the bitches you would get with that[/QUOTE] Hey bitches, check out my giant ball camera

[QUOTE=WaLLy3K;41248569]If this was a paid gig, my mother in law would be all over this like a bad rash. She's 60 and does 400km++ walks for pleasure whenever she's travelling with her 70 year old husband.[/QUOTE] I am less fit than a 70 year old man ontopic: This is a really interesting concept, it'd be cool to see people start using these. Also, the music is nice.

What if it gets stolen from you?

I was thinking about something like this the other day. I was thinking if we could use our phones to make panoramas of certain places and stick them on Streetview.

[QUOTE=uzikus;41248911]What if it gets stolen from you?[/QUOTE] Why would you steal this?

It can't be used to explore dense vegetation areas, it may hit tree branches and stuff like that.