How do you map out a desert when it ’s not on the button the best place to drive one of Google ’s Street View cars ? Camel - cam , that ’s how .
Perhaps you ’ve seen one of the Google Street View cars , drive around your region with a gimmick call in a “ Trekker ” on top of it , with a tv camera inside snapping away . Google need to make the Liwa Desert , near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates , explorable on Street View . But the Street View cars ca n’t handle the George Sand , so Google ’s team turned to a much more ancient method of navigating the desert : camel .
Najeeb Jarrar , Google ’s Product Marketing Manager , Middle East and North Africa explains on theGoogle Lat - Longblog :
To lend this stunning desert to Street View , we fashioned theTrekkerto rest on a camel , which gathered imagery as it walked . Using camels for the collection allowed us to collect authentic imagination and minimize our perturbation of this delicate environment … We go for this collection give you a glimpse of what it may be like to go the desert as caravan merchants have for the preceding 3000 years . Should you make the journey here in individual , who knows — you may meet somenew ally .
[ Google Lat - Long ]
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