{"id":24426,"date":"2013-07-17T09:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T05:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=24426"},"modified":"2013-07-17T09:20:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T05:20:06","slug":"venice-finally-mapped-by-street-view-google-staff-ditched-the-famous-car-and-strapped-cameras-to-their-backs-in-order-to-capture-the-citys-canals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=24426","title":{"rendered":"Venice finally mapped by Street View: Google staff ditched the famous car and strapped cameras to their backs in order to capture the city&#8217;s canals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Google-has-finally-overcome-the-obstacle-of-a-lack-of-streets-as-they-capture-Venice-on-foot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24423\" alt=\"Google has finally overcome the obstacle of a lack of streets as they capture Venice on foot\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Google-has-finally-overcome-the-obstacle-of-a-lack-of-streets-as-they-capture-Venice-on-foot.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Google-has-finally-overcome-the-obstacle-of-a-lack-of-streets-as-they-capture-Venice-on-foot.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Google-has-finally-overcome-the-obstacle-of-a-lack-of-streets-as-they-capture-Venice-on-foot-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Google-has-finally-overcome-the-obstacle-of-a-lack-of-streets-as-they-capture-Venice-on-foot-453x300.jpg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>The Italian city of Venice has finally made it onto Google Street View \u2013 despite being built on water.<\/p>\n<p>Google has finally overcome the obstacle of capturing a city with no streets after strapping 360\u00b0 cameras to employees who have travelled around Venice on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, Google Street View images are taken by a specially equipped car, but in the case of the popular Italian destination, extreme measures had to be taken.<\/p>\n<p>Employees have made their across Venice\u2019s piazzas and narrow walkways wearing backpacks containing the 33lbs cameras, and images should be available in two weeks.<br \/>\nThe cameras, named The Trekker, have been used by Google to capture places only available by foot, such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian city of Venice has finally made it onto Google Street View \u2013 despite&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}