Articles tagged “street view”

Online Travel

Behind the Lens: How Google’s Street View Traveler Is Capturing the World’s Most Iconic Places

Business travel is often dreaded by perpetual road warriors, but that’s not true for Valentina Frassi. Except when there's a pandemic, Frassi travels the world recording iconic scenes of major landmarks that most people can only dream of seeing.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 4 years ago

Behind the Lens: How Google’s Street View Traveler Is Capturing the World’s Most Iconic Places

Online Travel

What Destinations Do When Google Maps Lets Them Down

Tourism and hospitality companies have an opportunity with Mapillary to create their own ground-level, photo-based mapping platforms without having to wait for Google Street View teams to create or update them.

Greg Oates, Skift | 8 years ago

What Destinations Do When Google Maps Lets Them Down

Online Travel

Visit Faroe Islands Creates ‘Sheep View’ Because Google Street View is a No-Show

Visit Faroe Islands sees its lack of Google Street View as a hindrance to tourism, so the tourism bureau is making its own "Sheep View." Even if the technology doesn't work perfectly, the project itself is getting attention and might boost tourism anyway.

Sarah Enelow, Skift | 8 years ago

Visit Faroe Islands Creates ‘Sheep View’ Because Google Street View is a No-Show

Airlines

Google Launches Map With Street Views of Airports, Train and Subway Stations

Google has the resources, but not necessarily the focus, to become a go-to resource for airport images and information.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 10 years ago

Google Launches Map With Street Views of Airports, Train and Subway Stations

Online Travel

Google Street View says aloha to Hawaii hiking trails and volcanoes

Google Street View gives destinations the opportunity to draw more visitors by providing detailed images of natural attractions that were previously difficult to capture online.

Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Google Street View says aloha to Hawaii hiking trails and volcanoes

Tourism

Google Street View scales first tower, world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa

Google’s vertical ascent was the next stop in its mapping conquest that started with roads and progressed to include natural wonders and indoors. Destinations can hope for an increase in interest in monuments that can be hyped with the online views.

Skift | 11 years ago

Google Street View scales first tower, world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa