24 October, 2011

Google Street View now travels and on rails


The Swiss Retijsky railway will appear in Google Street View

Thanks to corporation Google and its geographical projects the world became, more than ever earlier, close and opened for us. Program Google Earth and site Google Maps have opened for us our planet as a whole, and service Street View has opened for us streets of cities which we can admire from any point of the world. And soon we can, being at home, to admire and the kinds opening from windows of trains.




The Swiss Retijsky railway will appear in Google Street View

Thanks to company Google Street View, decided to take part in one of corporation Virgin projects - Virgin Oceanic, we can see detailed panoramic pictures of oceanic depths. But it only a year or two from now. And in couple of months kinds which open from windows of the trains which are passing on one of the railways of Switzerland will be accessible to us in service Google Street View.



The Swiss Retijsky railway will appear in Google Street View
The Retijsky railway started in Switzerland in 1888 year and having length of 384 kilometres, is one of the largest railways of the country, the leader by quantity of transportations. In 2008 year 122-tikilometrovyj the site of this road from district Albula to district Bernina, became object of the World heritage of UNESCO. Here company Google also has decided to remove this site for the project Street View.
The Swiss Retijsky railway will appear in Google Street View

All this 122-tikilometrovyj the site goes in the most surprising places of Switzerland (and a few Italy). Snow-covered mountains are replaced by the green fields full of grasses and other plants, then there there are the small medieval small towns, leading the slow, measured life.
All can be seen it in Google Street View. After all shootings of this site of the Retijsky railway by the panoramic chamber have already passed. For this purpose before the train going on it, the platform with the chamber which continuously removed all of 122 kilometres of road has been established.



The Swiss Retijsky railway will appear in Google Street View
Still hundred years ago on the world map there was a large quantity of white stains. Now, thanks to efforts of corporation Google, white stains to a planet does not remain not only for geographers, but also for any user of the computer having access to a network the Internet.

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