How Google Street View Rides the Rails

As part of their partnership with UNESCO to provide practical tours of the fate World Heritage Sites , Google send one of their Street View trikes to ride theRhaetian Railwayin Switzerland to capture its sensational views of the Swiss Alps .

The railway ’s Albula and Bernina channel were both declared World Heritage Sites back in 2008 , and to capture the loftiness that earned them that status , Google only slash one of their panoramic camera equipped tricycle to a flat bed railcar . The seventy six mile route , which includes 196 bridges and 55 tunnel , in all probability did n’t take that foresightful to navigate , which is good because it look like one of Google ’s operators was along for what had to be a rather chilly tantalise .

Now this is n’t the first time that Google has provide a rails ’s center thought of a famous route ; last year they did the same for theTrans - Siberian Railway . But that was only a lock - off picture fool through a passenger windowpane . The use of their panoramic camera on this path will or else leave for full 360 degree horizon of the palisade landscapes , from the quilt of your laptop . [ MacprimeviaDvice ]

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