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Google Street View trike to visit Boulder Creek Path
The Boulder Creek Path is about to become famous (and maybe you will, too, if you’re on the path at the right time).
Google held a contest to choose early sites for off-road Street View mapping by its camera/trike.
If you haven’t used Street View, it’s basically a whole bunch of photos — so many and in so many directions that it can seem like one long, continuous photo — attached to Google Maps. So if you’re getting directions to a restaurant and you’ve never been, you can load up Street View to see exactly what your destination looks like.
Here’s Street View pointed at the Flatirons. You can drag the image around to see Chautauqua, or click arrows along the line to “walk” through the streets of Boulder. (It might take a little time to load when you first get here.)
Long story short, the mapping will allow people to explore the Creek Path from their computers — and it’s a step in the direction of using Google Maps to plan your bike trips.
The city of Boulder hopes that the trike’s ride through Boulder marks the beginning of a deeper relationship between the city and Google’s mapping programs. The city has applied to share data about its extensive bike path system with Google as a Base Map Partner.
If the city’s proposal is accepted, people will be able to get directions for traveling in Boulder from Google Maps that are tailored for bikes, routing cyclists along multi-use paths and roads with bike lanes. The city already has its own mapping software at gobikeboulder.net that does just that, but if Boulder can partner with Google, Go Boulder staffers hope that even more people will take advantage of the 360 miles of local bike routes.
Check out Laura’s Google Street View/Boulder Creek Path story over at the Camera to learn more.
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