Google has introduced an updated Trekker system used by its partners to capture locations around the world. The updated device is lighter in weight than the previous version, also featuring a "sleeker ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5kmKO_gGsc?feature=player_embedded] Google Trekker just announced the expansion of its street view hiking map project to ...

When Google announced a new project it called Trekker last October, it sounded like a far-reaching and futuristic 20% type undertaking. Today, that project has come through with some of the most ...

If you're heading to a remote locale not yet captured by Google's ubiquitous Street View cameras, you can volunteer to document the scenery using one of Google's own Trekker backpacks. The Trekker is ...

Google has announced an exciting new scheme that allows organizations to now use the Google Street View Trekker Camera on a loan basis. The Google Street View Trekker Camera pilot program allows third ...

It has been several years since Google's influential Street View left the roads and began to map everything from shopping centers to hiking trails. The device that made this happen was called the ...

If you think the Google Maps Street View is cool, wait until you wander through the Arlington National Cemetery, or visit the top of Mount Fuji from your desktop or smartphone. The Washington Post ...

Google is running a new pilot program for Trekker, a wearable backpack camera system designed to extend the reach of Google Maps to places where Street View cars, bicycles and snowmobiles can't go.

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But Google isn’t about to hand out its Trekker backpacks to just any trail hound. The company describes some specific qualifications in its on online application for the Trekker program: “If you ...

In an effort to map parts of the planet where cars can't go, the tech giant is working with third-party organizations to gather imagery from hiking trails, beaches, canyons, and mountaintops. Dara ...