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Google Maps needs a snatch!

Category: General 4WD News
Posted: 2009-03-18 10:29

We spend too much of our spare time on the internet looking at places to go 4WDing, and when a reader submitted this link we were all over it like diff oil on a driveway.

You’ll no doubt be familiar with the Google Maps cars that have been traversing our streets taking photographs for Google’s online mapping software, Street View. Well, it seems Google’s heading out of town now, and at one point one of the camera vehicles has found itself bogged.

http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/flashnews/upload/Google%20-%20Recovery%201.jpg

No worries, with a couple of 4WDers in a Patrol nearby it was only a quick snatch to get the vehicle free. Still, makes for interesting pictures, huh?

http://www.4wdmonthly.com.au/flashnews/upload/Google%20-%20Recovery%202.jpg

If you’re the 4WDers who rescued the Google Maps team then let us know! You can see the pictures live on Google Street View by clicking on the following link:

Link: Google Maps
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