Quito, Daily EL COMERCIO, September 22, 2014
Ecuador will can be visited virtually with Google Maps
Google vehicle that will collect information and images to make the map of Ecuador.
The busy García Moreno Street, in downtown Quito. The recovered Street La Ronda, very close to the Plaza de Santo Domingo or the Panecillo’s Virgin, in the upper part of the city. In a few months, these and other historic places in the capital and the country will be able to travel virtually through Google Maps.
Since September 23, the firm collects information and images in order to make a map of Ecuador as accurate and real as possible. Then it will be at the disposal of the world. Special vehicles of Google are used on vehicular access avenues and in which you cannot drive a car a person runs them with a special backpack that captures the images.
This is the first step in a complex process that has no end date yet, as Maite Iturria, Google Street View manager for Latin America, points out. The idea is to cover the largest percentage of the national territory.
Hence, the next step is to process the information. This involves, for example, pixelating the faces of people who happen to be in the places where Google vehicles transit. The idea is they can’t be identified.
Then these worked images will be uploaded to Google’s map and people who access will be able to see the streets and tourist spots with a 360 degree view. Ecuador was chosen to implement this tool because of the cultural and patrimonial value it has, in addition to the landscapes, as Iturria referred to in an exclusive interview for EL COMERCIO.
Thus, Ecuador becomes the sixth country in the region to have a 3D map on the web. This can be useful for tourism, as foreigners will be able to visit previously the places where they want to travel and establish routes.
But it will also have an interactive component. When the map is uploaded to Google Maps, people will be able to choose a specific location, for example the business address, and then paste those images onto their website and make custom routes.
Likewise, Google’s tool can be used to get to know a site before traveling, identify important places around, such as bus stops or supermarkets, and visit a neighborhood, before renting an apartment in the area.
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Quito, Daily EL COMERCIO, September 23, 2014
How will Street View service of Google Maps benefit Ecuador?
Google vehicle that will collect information and images to make the map of Ecuador.
After the first tours of Google vehicles through Quito, the company made public some of the benefits users will have when 3D images of the country are finished and uploaded to the web.
Tourists, for example, will be able to make travel plans and set up tours after taking virtual tours of emblematic sites. And it can also be used in the classroom, to show students the exact place of study, rather than just mentioning it. This could even give the chair an interactivity component.
Local businesses will also benefit from this technology by being able to insert Google Maps directly on their website, allowing their customers to know the location and facade of their shops.
Added to this is the Google+ functionality, which allows you to discover new sites and share opinions about them. The idea is that it can be as real a map as possible, but at the same time it is alive, through the contributions of users in Ecuador.
Google clarified that the images that are being collected do not violate people’s privacy, as “we only show the same roads that a driver or pedestrian could observe down the street”.
A technology has been developed to blur the faces and plates of vehicles. This process applies to all Street View images.
Once the images are available for public access, a tool has even been added to remove the images, at the request of users.
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Quito, Daily EL COMERCIO, September 24, 2014
Ecuador joins more than 50 countries around the world that count with Google Street View
Google vehicle that will collect information and images to make the map of Ecuador.
Google Street View operates in 31 countries in Europe, six in Latin America, two in North America, 11 in Asia, 4 in Africa and all over Antarctica. This service allows to observe, through images in 360 degrees, the cities and places of interest of the countries.
This works through a series of panoramic photographs taken by the devices that are then joined by a special system and shows the areas with updated information.
This application, which was launched in May 2007, now allows a tour of some places in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Ecuador. However, the idea of the technological giant is now to cover the whole country.
At the moment, the Google Street View service only contains information from the Galapagos Islands, so it was announced that information will be collected on a national scale.
From this September 23, the firm collects information and images to be able to make a map of Ecuador as accurate and real as possible, through the cars of Google and the backpacks which are used to explore the places that are not open to vehicular access.
This system, according to the organizers, will allow Google users to know the tourist wonders of the country and in addition, the owners of premises and shops will be able to advertise in the tool.
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