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TAJ MAHAL COMES TO YOUR LIVING ROOM = February 14, 2014 ......not all of us can afford the air fare. So how about a virtual tour instead? Google has teamed up with the Indian ministry of culture to bring the Taj Mahal and 99 other heritage sites to Street View. The 17th Century Taj in Agra, Uttar Pradesh – famous for its gleaming white marble domes and towers and considered to be one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture in the world – is being mapped digitally by Google’s backpack Trekker camera. This portable kit, which enables Google to map places its Street View cars cannot reach, underpins an ambitious project to collect footage of all the world’s most treasured natural and man-made landmarks. It has already been used to map the Grand Canyon and the world’s tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. Suren Ruhela, geo product manager for Google India, told the BBC: “We are creating a digital record of these monuments and those records will live forever. newsleechuv/science-and-technology/taj-mahal-comes-to-your-living-room
Posted on: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 23:53:59 +0000

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