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Google uses elephants, camels to map remote parts of globe

In Cambodia, monkeys destroyed its equipment

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The images are being used to enhance Street View, a component of the company’s popular Google Maps app, as the firm searches for new features that will entice users

Mike Cherney | WSJ Uluru (Australia)
Google is coming across some unusual challenges as it seeks to capture eye-level imagery of the most remote parts of the globe.
 
In a recent foray into the Australian outback, Google’s amateur cartographers used a backpack to lug bulky camera equipment around Uluru, a popular tourist site also known as Ayers Rock. One hitch: they had to avoid photographing certain parts of the red rock formation that are especially sacred to the local Aboriginal people.
 
Having taken shots of many of the world’s streets using cameras on vehicles, Google is moving to more difficult locations. On the South