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Google continues to expand the range of its Street View project. Today, the company is launching imagery from the ancient rock-cut city of Petra, in Jordan (and one of the seven wonders of the world,

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pVCToDTbT4&w=560&h=315] Google took to the sands to expand its globe-spanning Street View imagery, using its Trekker camera pack modified and mounted

Google is trying hard to build out its Street View-style imagery of locales off the beaten path with its Trekker program. The Trekker, a roughly 40-pound backpack that has a camera-ridden sphere pokin

Google impressed a lot of people when it debuted its Grand Canyon Street View imagery in October. The Trekker backpack used to capture that imagery, which is essentially a backpack-mounted version of

We know that Google’s Street View team has been making its technology smaller and more mobile, especially when it comes to people snapping images for Google Maps. Today, the team has shared some

“Teleportation is the transfer of matter from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them, similar to the concept apport, an earlier word used in the context of spiri

When Google announced a new project it called Trekker last October, it sounded like a far-reaching and futuristic 20% type undertaking. Today, that project has come through with some of the most detai

Google just <a target="_blank" href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/10/trekking-grand-canyon-for-google-maps.html">announced</a> that it is taking the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.yout