Admittedly, we’re not exactly thrilled about the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. We don’t even understand the rules of half the events. But leave it to Google to make the games (or at least the location) a little more exciting.
To do this, some enterprising engineers and camera operators are taking Google Street View to new heights — literally. According to the Official Google Blog, you can now view shots from vantage points in the Whistler Blackcomb mountains — some of them as high as 7,000 feet. The Street View team rigged a camera to a snowmobile and zipped around many of the runs that will host Olympic events — like the Dave Murray downhill slope. These really are some breathtaking shots, and shots that many of us would never see if it weren’t for Street View. Plus, Google captured some new aerial images of the Vancouver-Whistler area.
Street View Snowmobile Gives Vantage From Olympic Mountain (Sadly Not Mount Olympus) originally appeared on Switched on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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