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Google maps zip through the Amazon in new trick

For its next technological trick, Google will show you what it鈥檚 like to zip through trees in the Amazon jungle.

The images released yesterday add to the diverse collection of photos supplementing Google鈥檚 widely used digital maps. The maps鈥 鈥淪treet View鈥 option mostly gives panoramic views of cities and neighborhoods photographed by car-mounted cameras, but Google also has found creative ways to depict exotic locations with no roads.

In its latest foray into the wilderness, Google teamed up with environmental protection group Amazonas Sustainable Foundation, or FAS, to explore a remote part of an Amazon rainforest. It lent FAS its Trekker device, a camera mounted on an apparatus originally designed to be carried like a backpack by hikers walking on trails.

FAS, though, sent the Trekker down a zip line. And privacy issues shouldn鈥檛 be an issue in any of the photography taken by the Trekker. Birds and insects are the only visible forms of life in its pictures.


 

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