Google Street View Lets People See Angkor Wat Without Disturbing It


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Google may do a bit more evil that it would like to admit, but its growing Street View archive on the world's great places -- warts and all -- is nothing but good.
Google Maps has added Cambodia's ancient temples of Angkor to its World Wonders Project. More than 90,000 images captured by the Internet giant's Street View cameras have been collected and made available in a virtual tour of the Khmer temples and stunning countryside surrounding the remote Angkor World Heritage Site. Cambodia's leading tourist destination this week joined Stonehenge, the Grand Canyon, the architectural ruins of Pompei, Italy,