17 August 2009 | Author: K. Todd Search Copywriter

Google Street View continues on tricycle

Google Street View has changed the way many of us get around, from letting us plan out a journey before getting behind the wheel to finding an unknown destination with ease to taking virtual tours of a city we could only dream of visiting outside work hours.

However, it has its pitfalls, and the inclusion of hard to get to locations is one of them. Places such as areas of geographical or historical interest, as well as simple pedestrianised sections of city centres, have so far eluded the inquisitive Google Street View car - but Google has the answer.

Recently, Google unleashed a wave of Google Street View tricycles, which have spent the last week meandering through Paris and soaking up the sights of the French capital that its black Opel Astras could not previously reach. This means that soon some of the views of Paris that Street View users could not access before will be appearing on the programme soon, allowing web users to take in Parisian gardens, pedestrianised centres and historical sites - all in the traditional 360 degree method.

If there's one thing Google is, it's thorough. Other locations known to have been included in the tricycle race are Warwick, with the famous castle subjected to Google's cameras, as well as world-renowned UK landmarks like Stonehenge, The Angel of the North and Loch Ness.

In spite of the controversy following Google Street View, with privacy concerns abound, it'll be interesting to see how web users take to the addition of incredible historical and geographical sites that they may otherwise have no chance to 'visit', even virtually.