{"id":17103,"date":"2012-06-21T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17103"},"modified":"2012-06-21T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T18:18:36","slug":"brock-will-soon-be-on-google-streetview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/06\/brock-will-soon-be-on-google-streetview\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock will soon be on Google StreetView"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17106\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17106\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17106\" title=\"Google\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/google-man-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A Google team cruised Brock's campus recently, gathering images to use in Google StreetView.\" width=\"504\" height=\"335\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Google team cruised Brock&#39;s campus recently, gathering images to use in Google StreetView.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Google StreetView&#8217;s relentless march to record images of streetscapes around the world has made its way to Brock University.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-June, a Google team cruised campus roadways and footpaths with their car and trike &#8211; each fitted with the special nine-lens camera that gathers the perspectives that create StreetView&#8217;s distinctive 360-degree panoramas.<\/p>\n<p>Once the images have been taken, they go through computer processing to make them ready for use on Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>A Google spokesman said this includes blurring parts of images so that passers-by, license plates etc can&#8217;t be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The editing and splicing process takes several weeks, so it could be sometime in the fall before StreetView watchers can do a Brock virtual tour.<\/p>\n<p>As with all StreetView image collections on private property, the visit here was the result of an agreement reached earlier between Brock and Google officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google StreetView&#8217;s relentless march to record images of streetscapes around the world has made its way to Brock University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":17104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17108,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17103\/revisions\/17108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}