Last month Google & VisitBritain asked the British public to name their top tourist treasures to bring to Google Street View via a new, groundbreaking invention - the Google Trike. The Trikes have the same capability as Street View cars for collecting street-level imagery and are designed to help Google make special imagery collections in places less accessible by cars, such as historic landmarks and narrow paths.
Google was flooded with over 10,000 suggestions, ranging from the well-known to the more unusual, reflecting the breadth of culture and history within Britain. From today, Britons can cast their final vote from within the five categories to decide which three locations the Google Trike will visit first (pending good weather this summer). The categories are: Castles, Coastal Paths, Natural Wonders, Historic Buildings & Monuments and (Sports) Stadiums. A link to the voting page can be found here: www.maps.google.co.uk/streetviewinfo (www.maps.google.co.uk/streetviewinfo)
The 16 finalists are as follows: Angel of the North, Bamburgh Castle, Cheddar Gorge, Colchester Castle, Corfe Castle, Durdle Door, Eden Project, Ironbridge, Kenilworth Castle, Lands End, Leeds Castle, Loch Ness, Millennium Stadium, Pembrokeshire Coast, Stonehenge and Warwick Castle.