This car and countless others like this have been scouring the streets of the US, France and Italy since May 2007. Identify their purpose.Answer: The vehicles are Google-operated for taking pictures for Google streetview. Pablo, QoD, Hirak, Mekhala, Raghu, Iam, Trevor Burnham, Divya, Mihir, Rajeev and an anon got it. Well done. Good to see some veteran members of Quizclub who have graduated making an appearance here.
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Taking pictures for Google Maps Street view
easy
Google Street View
basically 360 degree panoramas of streets
Google Street View Cameras. Notably the Tour De France street views
This is for the Google's Street View service.
Google Street View
Google Street View
Google Street View for Europe?
Ah, those are Google cars for the Google Street View feature that's been integrated into Google Maps. Click pretty much any major street in any major city, and you can see how things look from ground-level. Even my humble apartment is on their vast servers!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View
used to take photos for google street view
The "street view" feature in Google/Yahoo/MSN maps
Street pictures for Google maps?
(Hey Dinesh! Remember me?)
- Rajeev
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