TAG | Go ogle the Aussie Street View at Google Maps for yourself! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 05 August 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 3 Noel Dyett, President of the Real Estate Institute of Australia said "Street View will save Australians time in the house buying or renting process, and will provide useful added information to inform their decisions.” Nick Hutchinson, Chairperson of the Australian Geography Teachers Association said "Educators in Australia are embracing online technology more and more, to bring classes and lessons to life. Many schools and Universities already actively use Google Earth to help students explore the world and spark curiosity.” Hutchinson continued: “With Street View, students will now be able to experience and study interesting or remote Australian areas that they would never see otherwise. This will be a great addition to many classrooms and many school curricula." To coincide with the launch, Google and the Sun Herald City2Surf have announced the launch of a "flipbook" video, “which uses still images from Street View to create a video of the race route, taking place in Sydney on Sunday 10 August 2008”. Both organisations point out that: “This is the first time in the world that a fun run has made a video of its course using Street View images. Runners can visualise the route and spectators can find the best vantage point in Sydney to cheer on their friends, co-workers and relatives. The video is available at a special Google YouTube page and the official City2Surf website.” Simon Dulhunty, editor of The Sun-Herald, said "This year the Sun-Herald City2Surf has announced a variety of exciting new highlights from our Expo to ChampionChip technology. We are now also proud to announce that we will debut as the first foot-race in the world to launch a video based on images from Google Street View.” Dulhunty added that: “With the help of Street View, this year's Sun-Herald City2Surf runners can take a virtual tour of the course before race day. Mapping from Hyde Park to Heartbreak Hill to Bondi Beach, the "flipbook" video will also allow spectators to find vantage points and give City2Surf Charity Challenge supporters the opportunity to see what runners will tackle on Sunday." Four Google engineers in Sydney invented the original Google Maps prototype, and all four still work in Google’s Sydney engineering centre. The four cartographic geniuses are Lars Rasmussen, Jens Rasmussen, Noel Gordon and Stephen Ma. Google boasts that “all over the country, Australians use Google Maps to find addresses and local businesses, see satellite imagery, obtain driving directions, create and share personalised maps, making it the most popular online maps site in Australia, according to Nielsen NetRatings (June 2008).”
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