The holy trail: using Trekker, Google's edge in the next mapping war

Christopher Fiock came to a rest. At a vista overlooking the South Bay, Fiock demonstrated the device that had made it all possible: the Trekker, the powerful if awkward device that recently concluded its first year as one of the technological engines of Google’s six-year-old Street View program. "The Trekker is a mobile image-capture platform," Fiock says. This week, panoramic imagery from the Presidio went live on Google Maps for all to see.

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