expanding in Africa – adding Botswana and five
Google Street View is
expanding in Africa – adding Botswana and five South African wineries to its
imagery database.
Street View, a feature
of Google Maps,
find now includes 30 Cape wineries in total with Boekenhoutskloof
Winery, Groot Constantia, Hartenberg, Môreson, Rustenberg Wines and Warwick the
latest to be added.
Google Street View
allows online users to explore places around the world through 360-degree
street-level imagery thanks to images taken by Google cars and trikes. It is
currently available in more than 30 countries worldwide.
Google will be
collecting images for Google Street View of Botswana in the coming weeks,
capturing destinations such as Gaborone, Francistown and the country’s most
famous tourist a
house nd wildlife destinations like Chobe National Park and Moremi
Game Reserve.
“We are delighted to
be updating Street View with more Cape winelands imagery and look forward to
bringing our cutti
business ng-edge Street View technology to Botswana”, said Julie
Taylor, Head of Communications and Public Affairs for Google, sub-Saharan
Africa.
“In addition to Street
View being useful to internet users and businesses in Botswana, we also want to
help Botswana showcase its extraordinary national parks and wildlife
destinations to the rest of the world”, she added.
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