Remote islands put cameras on their SHEEP in bid to get Google Street View to map their roads
Remote islands have taken a campaign to get Google Street View to map its roads to the next level – by attaching cameras to the local SHEEP.
The Faroe Islands, part of Denmark, have not yet played host to the technology giant’s cars, and they’re sick of being missed out.
Now local tourist body, Visit Faroe Islands, has decided that the 50,000 human residents will put their 70,000 woolly counterparts to good use.
Durita Dahl Andreassen from the organisation says: “The idea is a little bit crazy, but I think I can make it work.”
She explains on her blog :”The Faroe Islands have some of the most beautiful roads in the world. It is impossible to describe what it feels like driving through the green valleys and up the mountains, or alongside the ocean, surrounded by steep drops and tall cliffs.
YouTube / Visit Faroe Islands
“But… unlike almost all other parts of Europe, we don’t exist on Google Street View.
“The Faroe Islands may be rugged and remote but this collection of 18 islands in the North Atlantic also provide some of the world’s most magical landscapes and it is time that this hidden Nordic nation is revealed to the world.”
The islands, which lie between Scotland’s northwest coast and Iceland, are now scattered with sheep wearing 360-degree solar-powered cameras.
Photos are then transmitted back to Ms Andreassen’s mobile phone so that she can upload them to Google Street View herself – but she says ‘Sheep View’ is no substitute, and calls on supporters to sign a petition summoning Google to come and map their roads.
YouTube / Visit Faroe Islands
The islands are a sheep-loving force of old, according to Ms Andreassen – the autonomous country’s coat of arms shows a sheep and the name of the islands in Danish translates as “the islands of sheep”.
Last year a humorous site called Google Sheep View sprung up which aggregated all of the four-legged ruminants captured by Google Street View .
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Remote islands put cameras on their SHEEP in bid to get Google Street View to map their roads
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