Google to use street view tech to record disaster areas (JAPAN)

[AsahinaKimi]

BY SHU NOMURA STAFF WRITER

Google Japan Inc. announced July 8 it would begin recording the devastation of communities struck by the Great East Japan Earthquake using technology from its Street View service to obtain 360-degree landscape shots.

The project will not only create a record of the quake and tsunami damage for future generations, but will also be made available for academic research.

The photographs, which should take three to six months to produce, will cover mainly the area along the coast of the main Honshu island from Aomori Prefecture to Ibaraki Prefecture.

The images will be posted on the Google Map service by the end of the year.

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[MADem]

1. Good idea. Pity they couldn't have started sooner, but it's understandable why not. nt