When Google did not want to identify the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic with street Street View feature decided the local population to establish its own “Sheep View”.
With the help of sheep, equipped with 360-degree camera and mobile phone, the 18 islands are now shown to the public.
the Faroe islands, and Faro were, as they are also called, has some 50 000 inhabitant. But then is not the around 80,000 woolly creatures who also reside on the islands in the North Atlantic included.
After that Google ignored local people’s desire to include the Faroe Islands in their mapping service Street View decided färöbon Durita Dahl Andreassen for to take matters into their own hands, according to the Guardian.
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– This is a place that has always been hidden from the outside world and so far away from everything, but I think we is ready to invite people here now, she tells the magazine.
And which is better guides to the hilly terrain than the island’s woolly inhabitants themselves?
Together with a local shepherd equipped Durita Dahl Andreassen why several sheep with a specially designed harness, equipped with 360-degree cameras and mobile phones.
“Accustomed to have to do things themselves”
the films collected are taken care of Dahl Andreassen yourself that sends them together with the GPS koordinarerna to Google.
– Here in the Faroe Islands, we are used to having to do things on their own. Knowing that we are so small and Google so great was that we felt that this was the only way to do it, said Dahl Andreassen.
Can team has so far taken panoramic images in five locations and filmed several videos.
the initiative is part of the campaign “360 Sheep View” based on trying to convince Google to come to the island and finish the survey.
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