Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Florida's beaches to be available on Google Maps

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JAN WADDY | PanamaCity.com

Published: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at 12:08 PM.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. ? Florida's 825 miles of beaches are coming to a computer near you.

Visit Florida, the state's tourism and marketing arm, begins a four-month journey Wednesday to capture 360-degree images of the state's beaches.

These photos will be integrated into?Google?Maps and will be available to anyone around the world with Internet access.

Two-person Visit Florida teams were trained by?Google?Map experts to capture the images. The teams will walk about 50 miles of beach each week with a backpack that has a camera system on top. The camera has 15 lenses, angled in different directions, so it can capture a complete picture of a location. The images are then stitched together into a 360-degree panoramic photo.

Officials say the images will be viewable on?Google?Maps next year.

Source: http://www.newsherald.com/entertainment/florida-s-beaches-to-be-available-on-google-maps-1.176891

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