Google Street View for the Amazon

Living on Earth

A team from Google recently went to the Amazon to make a “street view” of the forest and river for Google Maps. Karin Tuxen-Bettman is a geo data strategist at Google. She talks with host Bruce Gellerman about taking street view photos in a place with no streets.

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