I read last week from Gizmodo’s article that Google was holding an event at Taronga Zoo in Sydney. I thought this was strange because Australia never things from Google or Apple or anyone else based in America. Also it was held at the zoo?

Well today they announced that they are launching a new Google maps service relating to street maps. A Google Street view trike.

From Google Blog

“Our Street View Trike made its first outing in Australia today, taking a spin around Sydney’s beautiful Taronga Zoo. We’re really excited to have the Trike in Australia for the first time, because it will let us collect imagery of some of Australia’s most spectacular natural and man-made places that are off the beaten track – or, at least, set back from the public roads along which our Street View cars normally travel.”

The Street View Trike is a 110kg modified bicycle that can access many places a car cannot (such as bike trails, national parks and beaches) and includes a mounted Street View camera and specially-decorated unit and GPS system.”

If you would like to see a place imaged by the trike, Google is asking you to suggest places here

I hope they won’t be re-imaging my area with the street cars any time soon or I will have to get out there on my bike again.

Yeah they are actually me

Thanks to my sources

iTech Report

Gizmodo

Google Blog