Streetview from a Tricycle

Google uses Tricycles, albeit very unusual ones,  to get a streetview in parks and footpaths.  I like the experience being gathered by gathering data from human sensors.   I guess the accuracy needed means this cannot be crowd-sourced. ---  ' ... Google is extending its Street View website with photographs of off-road destinations using specially-adapted tricycles. Here, Google's Daniel Ratner rides his three-wheeled creation The Internet giant has this week launched a large collection of images taken by the 9ft-long tricycles. The novel off-road vehicles will allow Street View to increasingly include images of public and private sites such as Kew Gardens in London, hiking trails in California and Sea World in Orlando, Florida. ... '