Imagine being the only driver on a two-lane asphalt highway as the stark desolation of Death ValleyNational park passes on each side and the crystal blue sky stretches up from the horizon.
Or picture a tight left turn on Yosemite’s Glacier Point Road where in the east iconic Half Dome suddenly appears against a backdrop of the snow-capped High Sierra.
The Google Street View service that has brought us Earth as we might not be able to afford to see it — as well criticism that some scenes along its 5 million miles of the globe’s roadways invade privacy — this month has turned its 360-degree cameras on road trips through five national parks in California.”Everyone likes to take a road trip through a national park,” said Evan Rapoport, the Street View project manager, who was inspired by a cross-country camping trip he took after graduation. “Bringing unique places to people that they might not go in the real world is unique to Street View.”
Read more at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48374435/ns/technology_and_science-computers/t/googles-death-valley-drive-click-mouse/
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