Street View backpack cams take on winter in Canada's Iqaluit
Google is getting more serious about mapping Canada's north, deploying photographers in winter to map the city of Iqaluit.
As temperatures hit a chilly 8 degrees, walkers equipped with Google's Trekker backpack cameras fanned out across Nunavut's capital, located along Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island.
The effort to image the city of 6,700 marks the first use of the Trekkers in the Canadian north. It's prohibitively expensive to send vehicles there, and some roads are difficult in winter, or nonexistent in summer. … Read more
