Discover Nature from your Laptop

Imagine a place where you could view nature from your laptop.  That is fast going to become a reality thanks to Google’s new advanced “Trekker” backpack.  The Trekker is a backpack mounted camera system used by google employees to map hard to reach spots where cars cannot go.  Trekker can map national parks, mark out trails and then sent them to Google’s all-powerful maps database. “For the past year, the Trekker has journeyed to ever more improbable locations, from the bottom of the Grand Canyon to the top of Mount Fuji. In recent months the device visited Venice, Italy; the Galapagos Islands; and dozens of national parks in the United States and Canada. While Google Search crawls the web, "we crawl the physical world, taking pictures," says Luc Vincent, engineering director on the project. "And try to make sense of them, try to make them useful." (Newton, 2013) An interesting piece of technology, that is helping us discover our beautiful planet.

Bibliography

Newton, C. (2013, November 22). The Verge Trekker. Retrieved from TheVerge.com: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/22/5132754/the-holy-trail-using-trekker-googles-edge-in-the-next-mapping-war