Photo by VisitFlorida
Agoraphobics rejoice, the beach is coming to you -sans all the sandy people.
After four months, every slouchy corner of Florida’s ocean-front goodness has been recorded for the eventual perusing of anyone with a browser and questionable time on their hands.
This week concluded the painstakingly thorough capturing of Florida’s 825 miles of beaches in images for Google Maps. The enterprise was a partnership between Google and VisitFlorida, the state’s tourism and marketing arm, that will produce an interactive first-person view of Florida’s famous natural attraction.
And by partnership we mean Florida put up $120,000+ to use Google’s 360 degree cameras, and the search engine giant agreed to pay the Sunshine State a token amount to buy the pictures. According to the Tampa Bay Times, Google will pay $1,000 for the detailed pictures of all the state’s coastline.
The state would have gotten more had they accepted just ONE share of Google stock; currently at $1,032.47.
