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Explore the Faroe Islands From a Sheep's Perspective With 'Sheepview360'
With no Google Street View team mapping her hometown, one woman is strapping 360-degree cameras onto the islands’ woolly flocks.
The folks in the Faroe Islands really want Google to put their hometown on the Street View map. Tucked between Iceland and Norway in the North Atlantic, the archipelago of 18 islands touts itself as a picturesque tourist destination for hikers and general lovers of nature and small towns.
But the island country’s streets and valleys have little online presence, and Google has yet to send its traveling fleet of camera cars there. Right now, the scant 360-degree virtual tours of the islands available on Google Maps are from contributors. So until the tech giant answers residents’ #wewantgooglestreetview petition, the islands’ tourism board has come up with a temporary alternative that relies on the area’s most abundant creatures.