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"Britain's canals and rivers will soon be available in Google Street View, after the Canal &amp;amp;amp; River Trust announced that it had been selected as the first group to receive a Google Trekker on loan in the UK.\r\n\r\nSpotted by Pocket Lint (via Tech Radar), the Trust will begin with the iconic Regent's Canal in London, before spending a month walking along over 100 miles of beautiful waterside routes spread out across the UK. The Bingley Five Rise and the Grand Union Canal are but a couple of the locations that the Trust plans to cover.\r\n\r\nGoogle Trekker is essentially a custom backpack, fitted with a 15-angle lens camera capable of shooting 360-degree pictures every 2.5 seconds. The walkers themselves don't really have to do anything \u2013 the shots are pretty much automated, then joined and uploaded to Google Maps for all to see.\r\n\r\nGoogle Trekker has been to some pretty spectacular places \u2013 many of which have now been documented with behind the scenes videos \u2013 and more coverage in the UK can only be of benefit to users.\r\n\r\n\u27A4\u00A0Google Trekker to capture our canals and rivers\r\n\r\nImage Credit:\u00A0Oli Scarff/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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