Google Reveals an Image-Capturing Street View Backpack and New 3-D Maps

Google Reveals an Image-Capturing Street View Backpack and New 3-D Maps

Google's Maps team introduced three new technologies on Wednesday -- advanced 3D models of entire cities, right down down to trees in front of buildings in Google Earth; a new Android-controlled Street View Trekker backpack for capturing images where bikes, cars and planes can't go; and the ability to save offline maps in the Android Maps app.