TravelNevada teamed up with Google Street View Trekker to collect images of less-traveled areas in Nevada for use on Google Maps.
The areas will also be mapped on the TravelNevada website and available for use by any participating tourism entity, such as the many Nevada state parks that aided in filming.
The Google Trekker is a 360-degree camera system, made of 15 cameras in a spherical dome, perched atop a metal-framed backpack that can be worn anywhere it can fit. Every two seconds the Trekker cameras take a photo, which are later stitched together, creating the 360-degree images seen on the “street view” section of Google Maps.
TravelNevada Content Manager Sydney Martinez led the Google Trekker program. Martinez worked with local guides around the state to select key locations within each region that showcase Nevada’s diverse landscape and highlight integral stories of culture, history and people that foster the Nevada spirit.
Each Nevadan captured images of their chosen location by carrying the Trekker, many times hiking, paddling or driving the 42-pound camera up mountains, through marshes, and across valleys. Although users won’t be able to see the cameraman or woman, each Google Street View location is a walk in a Nevadan’s shoes.
TravelNevada applied to use the Trekker in 2015 and successfully filmed 22 northwest, eastern, central and southern Nevada locations over the course of three weeks.
Check out the Google Street View Trekker experience at www.TravelNevada.com/google-trekker and see behind-the-scenes photography at www.Flickr.com/Photos/TravelNevada. To access the TravelNevada Trekker footage live on Google Maps, go to maps.google.com and enter the location you’d like to explore. You may then select the Street View thumbnail or click on the yellow Street View Pegman in the lower right hand corner and drag the icon to one of the featured location.
The newly photographed Nevada locations in Google Maps are listed below:
- Fort Churchill State Park
- Mormon Station State Park
- Lake Tahoe State Park
- Pyramid Lake
- Lovelock Cave
- Lamoille Canyon
- Angel Lake
- Churchill Vineyards
- Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge
- Sand Mountain State Recreation Area
- Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park
- Hickison Petroglyphs
- Spencer Hot Springs
- Belmont Ghost Town
- Nevada Northern Railway
- Cathedral Gorge State Park
- Kershaw-Ryan State Park
- Valley of Fire State Park
- Techatticup at Eldorado Canyon
- Rhyolite Ghost Town & Goldwell Open Air Museum
- International Car Forest of the Last Church
- Tonopah Mining Park
