Street View Trekker for the first time in Poland – Money.pl

2014-08-18 13:17

Author: Maciej Gajewski

Trekker, a handy backpack that allows you to reach operators Street View to distant corners and places not accessible to other devices Street View, appeared in Poland for the first time . The occasion was an action MapUp, which takes place in the August long weekend in Hawaii. During the event created an even better and more accurate map of Great Masurian Lakes.

With Trekkerowi in Street View can find more pictures of places from around the globe – places where you can not shoot out of the car, tricycle, truck or snowmobile. Trekker, along with system mounted on top of the photo, the operator carries on his back. The equipment is so small and handy that you can take pictures in tight and narrow spaces and anywhere else where you can not reach otherwise than on foot. Last weekend backpack using photos as walkways and observation deck in Giżycko and the famous Fortress Boyen. Thanks Trekkerowi Internet users around the world will also be able to take a virtual cruise on the lake Niegocin and visit other attractions Mazur, for example. Hiding in a historical mystery I say Wolf’s Lair in Gierłoż, Monuments Park Warmia and Mazury and enjoy lodging in Mamerki the Museum of Folk Architecture in Olsztynku . In addition Mazur were also photographed attractions of the three other provinces. In Lower Silesia Trekker immortalized the highest peak of the massif of Mt, hiking trails next to two waterfalls in the Giant Mountains National Park, Szklarska Poreba Strzeliniec in Table Mountains and the Errant Rocks, Giant Mountain panorama extending from the Szrenica of Snow White Spa Park in Sobotka, Japanese Garden in Wroclaw and arboretum in Wojsławice, Karpniki in Jelenia Góra County. In the Lodz Region made Street View images in Lodz Zoo and the Open Air Museum Locomotive in Zduńska Will. However, in the Mazowieckie voivodship Trekker visited the Royal Baths Park in Warsaw. All things will be on the next update of Street View in 2015.

The first pictures using cameras mounted on the backpack were made in the difficult rocky terrain of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Trekker also visited, among others, Burj Khalifa, Hawaii, the temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia and the Galapagos Islands.

Street View Trekker appeared in Poland for the first time, especially for the MapUp – mapping Mazur shares held in a long weekend of 15 and August 17 this year. For three days the community Wizard Google Maps based on the latest satellite images NANOSIL changes in the Maps area Mazur. By upgrading Google Maps can more accurately reproduce reality and surroundings. When the shares were almost 6 thousand. editing, including applied almost 300 tourist attractions. Draped changes are important both for tourists and residents Mazur, since the Wizards Maps not only marked housing estates and bus stations, but mainly improved the visibility of the main roads, parks and lakes. As a result of the Great Lakes map has become more accurate and even easier to use. In addition to the Wizards Map to Giżycka came also a group of photographers spherical, who performed more than one thousand. spherical images (panoramas 360 degrees) of the main attractions of the region.

Creating a map that will accurately reflect the changing world, it is a big challenge.
For each user can find all the interesting places him continually updating various areas on our maps, benefiting from the various sources – public information and commercial satellite images and spherical images Street View. We provide free tools, such as Google Map Maker, by which anyone can become a co-creator of the map. This weekend users were Map Wizard to Hawaii and made sure that this area was accurately reflected on our maps, for the benefit of residents and tourists. And thanks to photographs taken by Trekker Street View, Internet users around the world will be able to enjoy the beautiful nature Polish – says Piotr Zalewski of Google Poland.

Anyone can Wizard Google Maps

Another attraction while he was training was MapUpu Wizard Google Maps for tourism organizations and enthusiasts technological innovations. The Wizard Google Maps can also benefit anyone who depends on the best mapping the surrounding areas.

Google Map Maker is an easy-to-use tool that allows users in a simple and fast way to add specific information to Google Maps . Using the wizard, you can select a specific area on Google Maps and add new information about it based on their own knowledge or in relation to the satellite images on Google Maps. Another click allows you to save your changes and submit the added information to Google. After verification of the data submitted, the changes will be visible on Google Maps, Google Earth, and the mobile version of Google Maps, exactly reflecting the area.

With Wizard Google Maps anyone can contribute to a more useful and comprehensive map changing world around us, sharing their local knowledge. Maps can be enriched with markers of local shops and restaurants, national parks and interesting places of historical significance, as well as campsites, beaches or your favorite hiking trails. Google Map Maker allows you to add more than 2 thousand. different types of objects.