Google is conducting a poll to decide which landmark should be next to be mapped by its Street View-recording tricycle. Other candidates include Stanford University, the Bronx Zoo and Alcatraz, among others.
What, no Fenway? No Castle Island? They may as well digitize the art installation that is City Hall Plaza while they’re at it, if they end up mapping Quincy Market across the street. Mapping things like the Somerville bike path also would add more walking routes around the Paris of the 90s, and just more Somerville, which the world clearly needs. It would also be pretty cool, if not particularly useful, if they strapped one of these things to an MBTA train, or just had someone drive the tricycle up and down the Orange Line.
After the jump, watch the innovative power of a company that made $1.6 billion in profit last quarter distilled into a guy riding a tricycle.
Posted by Brendan Lynch
Tags: Castle Island, Fenway Park, GIS, Google, Quincy Market, Somerville
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I think its another great idea from Google (does Google ever have a bad idea?). It will allow people who may never be able to travel to a particular area to really get a true feel for the place.
By the way my votes for Fells Point!