In addition to camel and Kangaroo, hired a flock of sheep made of Google Street maps-Google, Google Street view-IT information

Street View? No, It is Sheep View.

Do you think Google Street view car, boat, airplane or at least take out? That's completely false. Last week, the Google Maps team has hired a new group of special-and sheep, to help them complete a has not been indexed by Google Street view shot of the sparsely populated islands.

Islands known as the Faroe Islands, from Iceland not far are Denmark sparsely populated autonomous overseas territories.

In the archipelago made up of dozens of separate islands, combined population is more than 40,000, far less than the number of 70,000 head of sheep on the ground, even the "Faro" the meaning of the name flock in Faroese.

First and started to hire sheep to take a street map is not the Google Maps team, but the Faroe Islands natives Durita Dahl Andreassen. She is sad because the Faroe Islands are so beautiful, but Google Maps Street view team "forgot". So she sent a petition to Google, says his own sheep well suited to help Google to complete the local street map.

She wrote in the petition:

The Islands have beautiful to breathtaking scenery, but it has not been included in Google Street view. My sheep suit to photograph the beautiful scenery here, but a complete Faroe Islands street map I need Google to come here and help us complete.

Once the petition is issued, Andreassen began to really let sheep carry the 360-degree cameras to photograph Street.

Last week, she finally got the Google Maps team responded, and she wanted to share it with people all over the world Faroe Islands beautiful wish has finally been realized.

Google maps teams with equipment to the Faroe Islands. They train people here how to use the street shooting machine, make flock a new employee and carry the machine began to shoot.

However, some problems: in addition to captured clutter is often present in the picture out of wool, sheep completely free shooting route also gives her a headache.

Apart from these sheep, and Google also provide more professional equipment and support. In order not to disrupt the local vegetation and environment, abandoned the idea of car collecting street view Google Maps team, but team members leading the locals back lifting 40-pound artificial Street collector Trekker trekking collection. Trekker top looks like an oversized football, with 15 shots, take a picture every 2.5 seconds.

The future, sheep of these machines will be leased to Andreassen, but will also hire local residents and visitors to collecting folk songs, let them go taking out the garbage or in sea kayaking, you can help to complete street map of filming and sound, so that people all over the world can sit at home and enjoy a world of beauty.

In fact, these sheep is not the only animal groups collected Google Street view team.

In order to render deserts "Street" view, Google maps once in the U.A.E. in the Liwa desert hired a camel named Raffia carry photo Trekker on June.

In the Township of Kangaroo Australia, cute Kangaroo had been absorbed by the street team, to capture images of some inaccessible remote areas of Australia.

Of course, if you want to join the ranks, than take your 360-degree camera equipment on loan projects or directly added to Google maps (Google Street View Camera Loan), with records that have not been discovered the beauty of the world.

除了骆驼和袋鼠，谷歌这次又雇佣了一群羊拍街景地图 - 谷歌,谷歌街景 - IT资讯

Street View? No, It is Sheep View.

你以为Google的街景地图都是车、船、飞机或者至少是人拍出来的？那就大错特错了。上周，Google地图团队雇佣了新的一批特殊的员工——羊，来帮助他们完成一个至今没有被Google街景收录的人烟稀少的群岛的拍摄工作。

群岛名为法罗群岛，距离冰岛不算远，是丹麦人烟稀少的海外自治领地。

在由几十个独立岛屿组成的群岛上，加起来人口也只有4万多，远不及当地七万头羊群的数量，甚至连“法罗”这个名字在法罗语中都有羊群的意思。

最早提出并开始实践雇佣羊来拍摄街景地图的并不是Google的地图团队，而是法罗群岛当地人Durita Dahl Andreassen。她很难过，因为法罗群岛如此美丽，却被Google地图的街景团队“忘记”了。于是，她向Google发出了请愿，表示自己的羊很适合帮助Google完成当地的街景地图。

请愿中她写道：

这个群岛有美到让人窒息的景色，但是却一直没有被Google街景地图所收录。而我的羊群很适合去拍摄这里美丽的景色，但是完成完整的法罗群岛街景地图我还需要Google来到这里，帮助我们一起完成。

在请愿发出后，Andreassen开始真的让羊扛上了360度摄像头去拍摄街景。

上周，她终于等到了Google的地图团队的回应，而她想与全世界人民一起分享法罗群岛美丽景色的愿望也终于被实现。

Google的地图团队带着设备来到法罗群岛。他们训练这里的人们如何使用街景拍摄机器，让一些羊群成为新的员工，扛起机器开始了拍摄。

不过也遇到一些问题：除了拍摄下来的图片中常常出现杂乱的羊毛外，羊完全随心所欲的拍摄路线也让她头疼。

除了这些羊外，Google还提供了更专业的设备和拍摄支持。为了不破坏当地的植被和环境，Google地图团队放弃了汽车采集街景的想法，而是让团队成员带领当地人背起重约40磅的人工街景采集器Trekker进行徒步采集。Trekker顶部看起来像个超大号足球，装有15个镜头，平均每2.5秒拍摄一张照片。

未来，这些机器除了会被租给Andreassen的羊外，也会出租当地居民和来到这里采风的游客，让他们无论是出门倒垃圾还是在海里划皮划艇，都可以帮忙完成街景地图的拍摄和完善，让全世界的人们都可以坐在家里就欣赏到世界级的美景。

其实，这些羊群并不是Google街景采集团队中唯一的动物群体。

为了呈现沙漠的“街”景，Google地图就曾经在阿联酋利瓦沙漠中聘请了一只名为Raffia的骆驼君扛上Trekker进行拍照。

而在袋鼠之乡澳大利亚，可爱的袋鼠也曾经被街景团队所吸收，来捕捉一些澳洲人迹罕至的偏远地区的影像。

当然，如果你也想加入到这个行列中，不如带上你的360度摄像头或者直接加入到Google地图的器械租借项目（Google Street View Camera Loan）中，一起记录那些没有被世人发掘的美景吧。