Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View (2016)

Fake & marketing gimmick. As I quoted 6 months ago¹, when another article about the same thing was featured²:

“Most images ended up being captured by humans […] Sheepview was charming, but it was at heart a marketing bid […].”

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15647524

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15644083

The story is from 2016, here's a follow up, where they collaborate with Google Street View: https://visitfaroeislands.com/sheepview360/google-has-arrive...

More Libre options for those interested:

https://www.mapillary.com/app/?focus=map&lat=62.078363777063...

EDIT: Removed OpenStreetCam link due to no data for Faroe Islands yet.

Disclaimer: OSM|GIS enthusiast

Sidenote: If anyone from Backblaze, Telenav/OSC, and/or Mapillary sees this, would love to have a chat about setting something up to pool street view imagery collection efforts.

Same topic but a different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15644083

There really should be a Google sheep view

People who grow grass on the roof of their house are pretty resourceful. Reminds me of the remote churchyard in Yorkshire that had a problem keeping the grass between the graves cut - they asked local farmers to put sheep in the burial ground. Achieved the desired result with minimum effort.

Google Goodiepal for some Faroese sound art

Can sheeps consent?