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What do you get when you add another wheel to a bicycle and slap an omnidirectional camera on top? A Street View Trike, that’s what.

While collecting imagery for its Street Viewproject, the folks at Google realized that some places are inaccessible with the standard Street View Car, so they invented this special trike which can collect imagery from scenic running and cycling trails, college campuses and similar locations.

To keep poor Google trikies (trikists? trikers?) from wandering around aimlessly, you can tell them of locations worthy of being photographed. You can nominate locations within six categories: Parks & Trails, University Campuses, Theme Parks & Zoos, Pedestrian Malls (ie: outdoor shopping areas, boardwalks), Landmarks and Sports Venues (ie: golf courses, racing tracks, stadium grounds). Nominations are open until October 28 and can be submitted over at www.google.com/trike.

In case you haven’t seen the traditional vehicles that help capture all the imagery for Google maps street view check the video out below. You may have seen one zipping around your area. Read the rest of this entry »