The University of Minnesota has partnered with Google to conceive a rare project of its kind. It consists in filling the google maps cartographic service with photographs of the planet's landscape at the South Pole.
Google has finally revealed its plan. Its employees said that now all Internet users will be able to travel virtually. You don't really need to travel to Antarctica to do this. It is enough to use the Google Street View service while sitting at home at your PC.
At the same time, on the photo panoramas superimposed on the maps, you can see the characteristic relief, which can be found only at the South Pole. There are all the usual landscapes for this area: borderless snowy distances with hulking penguins, ice shelves with tireless explorers.
Such panoramas with a polar view in their technical performance have their own characteristics, unlike ordinary gallery photos. These pictures with polar views, as a rule, are taken with special cameras mounted on special statistical tripods.
Such devices have unusual equipment. They have built-in lenses that can only be compared with a fish eye. They are able to give the field for observation the largest angle of view. The Antarctic polar vistas captured in the photographs are an extension of one of the unique Street View programs.
The task of the service is not at all limited to photographs of various cities. The purpose of the service is the gradual development of all the expanses of our planet. On Google maps, you can move through the snowy deserts, moving along specially designed paths.
A panorama of pictures of remarkable places in Antarctica will be displayed on the World Wonders portal, which not only places attractions from all over the world, but also informs users in detail about the development of certain lands.
This peerless idea was only made possible by the assistance of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Foundation and the Polar Geospatial Data Center in Minnesota.
