) Check out Street View’s new collection with McLaren Racing
Earthtopomaps – Check out Street View’s new collection with McLaren Racing
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Starting today, racing fans can get an up-close look under McLaren’s hood thanks to an all-new Street View collection.
Since Google became an official partner of the Formula 1 team last year, we’ve worked to create an exclusive Street View experience that takes fans behind the scenes at the McLaren Technology Center (MTC). The headquarters of McLaren Racing and home of the McLaren Formula 1 Team in Surrey, England.
Discover easter eggs. Learn more with fun facts guiding your tour. And even get behind the wheel of some of McLaren’s most iconic racing and road cars.
Here’s a look at images from the collection that make our heart race.
Earthtopomaps Check out Street View’s new collection with McLaren Racing
Over the last 15 years Street View has taken you to incredible places to learn, find inspiration and explore from far above the earth at the International Space Station down into the ocean and even inside an active volcano. With this latest collection, we hope F1 fans can enjoy the journey through 60 years of racing history with McLaren.
Over the last 15 years Street View has taken you to incredible places to learn, find inspiration and exploreGOOGLE STREET VIEW @ MTCTake a virtual tour of the McLaren Technology Centre courtesy of Google Street ViewHow would you like to take a look around the iconic McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, UK, home to the McLaren Formula 1 team?We haven’t opened our HQ to the public – sadly there’s just too much top secret R&D going on to allow that! But we have allowed Google to bring their Street View cameras in to tour the MTC and enable people to see the facility where we produce our F1 cars, and where McLaren Applied Technologies apply F1 innovations to other industries.
The MTC itself is an award-winning icon of design, environmental efficiency and high technology.
Racing inside the mtc Google street view mtc
At this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix. I’ll be cheering on two of my favorite Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris.
HBD to us! Let’s celebrate with Street View adventures
Street View is turning 15, and the birthday nostalgia is hitting us hard.
HBD to us! Let’s celebrate with Street View adventures
In 2007, we published our first Street View images of San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas, Miami and Denver. Since then. Street View cars equipped with cameras have captured and shared more than 220 billion Street View images. And mapped 10 million miles the equivalent of circling the globe more than 400 times!. We’ve also captured Street View imagery inside cultural landmarks, high up in space and deep under the ocean.
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To celebrate Street View’s 15th birthday, we’re sharing 15 amazing Street View collections including three places the world’s been loving lately. Four new collections (consider this our party favor to you), and Street View images that make us feel some kind of way. So raise your glasses er, cursors. And let’s cheers to exploring the world together. Where you’ve been exploring and new places to go.
With so many places and landmarks at your fingertips, three spots in particular piqued your interest over the past year. Here are the three most popular places to explore on Street View: head up to the 154th floor of the Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates, which was named the world’s tallest building; the iconic Eiffel Tower in France,
complete with dazzling views of Paris from the top; and our special collection of imagery from the Taj Mahal in India.
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And for your next Street View excursions, we’ve started rolling out four new collections that we think will become all-time favorites.
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The Pyramids of Meroë in Sudan: Thanks to new panoramic imagery. Explore the ancient pyramids that are home to tombs of the kings and queens of the Kushite Kingdom.
The Duomo is the largest cathedral in Italy and the third-largest cathedral in Europe.
Not to mention, it boasts one of the best views of Milan. We’ve been working with Google Arts & Culture. And the Duomo of Milan since 2019 to bring imagery from inside the Duomo to Street View so that everyone can get a behind-the-scenes look at this architectural and cultural gem and it’s now live!
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Les Invalides in Paris: Before the Eiffel Tower. Les Invalides’ golden dome was the highest point in Paris. New images of the historic Hôtel des Invalides buildings let you explore its museums and monuments. Learn more about French military history via a virtual tour.
Sydney Ferries in Australia: The iconic Sydney Ferries will soon be digitally preserved as a result of our work with Transport for New South Wales and Transdev. Later this year, we’ll bring this collection onto Street View so that people around the world can take a virtual tour of Sydney Ferries. And get a glimpse of the journey along Sydney’s stunning harbor.
8 Street View images we love
With endless places to explore. It’s difficult to pick favorites really. You should have seen the list we narrowed this down from but we gave it our best shot. Here are eight Street View images we love.
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Does the thought of visiting an active volcano scare you?. Us too! A New Zealand-based Googler took a trekker into the active Ambrym Volcano Marum Crater in Vanuatu so you don’t have to.
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Monemvasia is a Greek town that’s name is derived from two Greek words meaning “single entry.” Fittingly, there is only one way into this rock fortress. Explore the town on Street View without the headache of getting there.
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The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland is a UNESCO site with a chamber where all decorative elements are made of salt.
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Calling all scary movie buffs! Can you guess which 1998 horror film this active volcano in Japan served as a backdrop for?. (Hint: the title rhymes with “The Wing.”)
The filming location has made cameos in a number of movies, including “Aladdin,”. “The Mummy Returns,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” and “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.”
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Thanks to a collaboration with NASA, Street Viewers can get a taste of what it’s like to be an astronaut. Ditch the gravity and float through the International Space Station.
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Dive into the Pacific Ocean. And swim with sea lions off the shore of the Galapagos Islands.
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And if there’s one Street View image that lives in our heads rent free… . It’s this horse eating a banana on the side of the road in Canada.
HBD to us! Let’s celebrate with Street View adventures
We’re proud of the work we’ve done to capture so much of the world’s wonder, history and quirkiness in Street View. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t give a shout out to all of the Maps users around the world who have captured and shared their own Street View imagery. To help make exploring the world together even easier. We’re launching Street View Studio a new platform with all the tools you need to publish 360 image sequences quickly and in bulk. Check out more ways we’re advancing Street View so we can explore together for another 15 years.
Street View cars equipped with cameras have captured and shared more than 220 billion Street View images.
And mapped 10 million miles the equivalent of circling the globe more than 400 times!. We’ve also captured Street View imagery inside cultural landmarks, high up in space and deep under the ocean. So raise your glasses er, cursors. With so many places and landmarks at your fingertips, three spots in particular piqued your interest over the past year. With so many places and landmarks at your fingertips, three spots in particular piqued your interest over the past year.
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Since then. Street View cars equipped with cameras have captured and shared more than 220 billion Street View images. And mapped 10 million miles the equivalent of circling the globe more than 400 times!. We’ve also captured Street View imagery inside cultural landmarks, high up in space and deep under the ocean. So raise your glasses er, cursors. With so many places and landmarks at your fingertips, three spots in particular piqued your interest over the past year. Not to mention, it boasts one of the best views of Milan.
) Welcome to Outer Space View – Earth – Earthtopomaps
Editor’s note.: Starting today, you can now explore the International Space Station in Street View in Google Maps. Thomas Pesquet. Astronaut at the European Space Agency (ESA). Spent six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as a flight engineer. He returned to Earth in June 2017. And in this post he tells us about what it’s like to live on the ISS. And his experience capturing Street View Imagery in zero gravity.
In the six months that I spent on the International Space Station. It was difficult to find the words or take a picture that accurately describes the feeling of being in space. Working with Google on my latest mission. I captured Street View imagery to show what the ISS looks like from the inside. And share what it’s like to look down on Earth from outer space.
For 16 years, astronauts have been working and living on the ISS. A structure made up of 15 connected modules that floats 250 miles above Earth. The ISS acts as a base for space exploration possible future missions to the Moon,Mars and asteroids—and gives us a unique perspective on Earth itself. We can collect data on the Earth’s oceans. Atmosphere. And land surface. We can conduct experiments and studies that we wouldn’t be able to do from Earth. Like monitoring how the human body reacts to microgravity. Solving mysteries of the immune system. Studying cyclones in order to alert populations. And governments when a storm is approaching, or monitoring marine litter—the rapidly increasing amount of waste found in our oceans.
There were a few “firsts” on my mission. It was led by Peggy Whitson who. At age 56. Became the oldest woman to fly into space and the first woman in history to command two expeditions. The mission was the first time Street View imagery was captured beyond planet Earth, and the first time annotations helpful little notes that pop up as you explore the ISS have been added to the imagery. They provide additional information or fun facts like where we work out to stay physically fit. What kind of food we eat. And where we conduct scientific experiments.
) Welcome to Outer Space View.
Node 1 (Unity) Peggy Whitson and friends dining at the galley table – big enough for six astronauts.
Because of the particular constraints of living and working in space, it wasn’t possible to collect Street View using Google’s usual methods. Instead. The Street View team worked with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Texas and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Alabama to design a gravity-free method of collecting the imagery using DSLR cameras. And equipment already on the ISS. Then I collected still photos in space. That were sent down to Earth where they were stitched together to create panoramic 360 degree imagery of the ISS.
Node 2 (Harmony) Crew Quarters – Astronaut Sandra Magnus, Expedition 18 flight engineer, poses for a photo in her crew compartment.
We did a lot of troubleshooting before collecting the final imagery that you see today in Street View.
The ISS has technical equipment on all surfaces, with lots of cables and a complicated layout with modules shooting off in all directions left. Right, up, down. And it’s a busy place. With six crew members carrying out research and maintenance activities 12 hours a day. There are a lot of obstacles up there, and we had limited time to capture the imagery. So we had to be confident that our approach would work. Oh, and there’s that whole zero gravity thing.
Joint Airlock (Quest) – This area contains space suits also known as Extravehicular Mobility Units.
They provide crew members with life support that enables extravehicular activity.
None of this would have been possible without the work of the team on the ground. My colleagues (turned roommates) on the ISS. And the countries that came together to send us up to space. Looking at Earth from above made me think about my own world a little differently, and I hope that the ISS on Street View changes your view of the world too.
