KAPA‘A — Look, there on the road. It’s a little car. It’s a giant camera. It’s the Google Maps with Street View project the coconut wireless has been buzzing about. The Garden Island caught up with the Google car and
KAPA‘A — Look, there on the road. It’s a little car. It’s a giant camera. It’s the Google Maps with Street View project the coconut wireless has been buzzing about.
The Garden Island caught up with the Google car and its driver, Eric Morse, in Safeway’s parking lot Tuesday afternoon. Morse said he is traveling every paved road on Kaua‘i and recording its landscape to add to the Street View application that allows practically any Internet user to take a 360-degree, street-level, virtual tour.
In total, 150 drivers are spending two years touring the country, he said, but he lucked out and got the Hawaiian Islands as part of his territory. He said it took four months to do O‘ahu, six weeks to do Maui and is anticipating about three weeks for Kaua‘i, if the weather cooperates. Apparently, he can’t record in the rain.
After Kaua‘i, it’s off to Moloka‘i, Lana‘i and then Guam, Morse said.
