Durita Andreassen ecouraged Google Maps to come to the Faroe Islands by fitting sheep with solar powered cameras to produce Street View images. Google Maps sent Street View equipment to help residents capture additional footage themselves.
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Google soon learned of her "Sheep View" project and sent the Google Maps team to the Faroe Islands to provide the 50,000 human residents with the tools necessary to capture Street View footage themselves.
"Now that the Faroe Islands is supplied with a Trekker and 360 cameras, residents and tourists can assist the sheep in collecting Street View imagery of their beautiful lands using selfie-sticks, bikes, backpacks, cars, kayaks, horses, ships and even wheelbarrows," Google Maps Program Manager David Castro González de Vega wrote.
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