Google's Street View is awesome

Today, Google unveiled a lot of Canada to the world. Street View went live with 130 additional cities and towns across Canada, on Google Maps. Now, you can plan your road trip across Canada from the comfort of your home computer! And special, just for Vancouver 2010, Google also took the slopes. Can't make it to the Olympics? You can now surf the slopes! How awesome is that?

in reference to:

"The 360-degree, slope-level imagery of Whistler Mountain is the first collected by the newest experimental Street View system, a snowmobile equipped with state-of-the-art photographic and GPS technology. Winter Games fans, skiers and snowboarders around the world can now pan across several Whistler runs as if they were there, and wind through Whistler Village and Whistler Creekside at the bases of Whistler-Blackcomb mountains."
- Announcement / Nouveauté (Google Street View Canada) (view on Google Sidewiki)

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