Switzerland sends Street View to the ski slopes
Switzerland Tourism and Google are bringing Street View to the ski slopes: The Swiss public will vote for the most popular ski resort and decide which slopes the Street View snowmobile should photograph this winter.
Google is adding a snowmobile to its Street View vehicles in Switzerland. Street View will soon also cover Swiss ski resorts. To this end, Switzerland Tourism and Google are calling on the Swiss population to vote for the most popular ski resort in Switzerland. In the "Street View Piste Prize", the Swiss population can choose their favorite ski resort from 30 destinations until 14 February and decide which ski resort will be photographed first by the snowmobile. Switzerland Tourism is giving away 3 overnight stays for two people and a 3-day pass for the prize-winning ski resort.
The fact that Street View also shows remote or special places is an advantage for Switzerland, says Thomas Winkler, member of the Executive Board of Switzerland Tourism: The first time a snowmobile was photographed for the 2010 Winter Olympics and enabled a virtual Olympic slope descent on Google Maps in the Canadian ski resort of Whistler.
