Google Street View Showcases Western鈥檚 Beautiful Campus
Contact: Paul Cocke, Director, 草榴社区 University Communications, (360) 303-6009; Paul.Cocke@wwu.edu听
BELLINGHAM 鈥 The beauty of Western Washington University鈥檚 campus is now available to the public via the Google Maps Street View Partner Program, which provides interactive听360-degree ground-level photos of special attractions around the world.
Last summer, the panoramic imagery of Western was collected by Google using a to collect photos while pedaled down pathways and pedestrian areas not accessible by the Street View car.听 Working with Western, the Google team rode the trike throughout pedestrian-only public paths on campus.
Now, a year later, the imagery of Western鈥檚 campus is available via the Street View feature in Google Maps at:
听鈥淲estern has one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. Google Maps鈥 360-degree photos of campus will allow prospective students and other visitors to see our university close-up and to better understand our campus geography before visiting,鈥 said Paul Cocke, director of University Communications at Western.
Anyone with an Internet connection and an interest in Western can access the imagery via Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile and Google Earth. To protect individuals鈥 privacy, the faces of any pedestrians on campus captured by the cameras were blurred.听Western joins a number of other university campuses, including UCLA, San Diego State, Penn State, University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth that are participating in the program.
Google Street View, launched in 2007, allows users to explore places near and far in Google Maps and Google Earth. It now covers cities and rural areas in many countries, including the United States, much of Europe, Australia, Japan and others.
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