"Google Earth on foot the important battlefields" Topic
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| Silent Pool | 15 Jul 2014 9:18 a.m. PST |
When will Google Earth, or an other, take its sneaky-beakey camera and plod and yomp the important battlefields so as to give us a video-game style walkabout? Hours of contentment. I would love that treatment applied to Waterloo, Gettysburg, and Saratoga. Your thoughts and suggested battlefields? |
| MajorB | 15 Jul 2014 10:41 a.m. PST |
When will Google Earth, or an other, take its sneaky-beakey camera and plod and yomp the important battlefields so as to give us a video-game style walkabout? Hours of contentment. Sometime around the twelfth of Never, I should think … |
| JimDuncanUK | 15 Jul 2014 11:55 a.m. PST |
I heard somewhere a good while ago that Google were planning to use tricycle mounted cameras to take paths that cars could not navigate. |
| JimDuncanUK | 15 Jul 2014 11:59 a.m. PST |
There's a glimpse of the tricycle in this clip! link |
 etotheipi  | 15 Jul 2014 12:42 p.m. PST |
Your thoughts and suggested battlefields? Hiroshima? |
| Zephyr1 | 15 Jul 2014 2:06 p.m. PST |
"Your thoughts and suggested battlefields?" Battle of the Coral Sea…? ;-) |
| bruntonboy | 15 Jul 2014 3:11 p.m. PST |
Sure in Britain they had a google cam on the back of rucksack mounted on a pole to do footpaths. Don't know how that went though. |
| zoneofcontrol | 15 Jul 2014 7:36 p.m. PST |
There is a newish (2013?) documentary on Gettysburg that includes a lot of drone filmed footage. It is called "The Gettysburg Story." There are lots of shots of the battlefield area as well as some clips of troop movements over maps. |
| SteelVictory | 15 Jul 2014 9:14 p.m. PST |
I think they do have a back-packed system. I was poking around checking out Pacific islands with Street View a few weeks ago and noticed they went down small trails. In some locations if you pan down you can see the shadow of a guy with a back-pack and camera pod sticking up over his head.
I'm looking again now and see they used boats to capture images of island coastlines.
Search "google street view backpack" |
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