Google Street View Trekker photographs British canals

Google's Street View backpack has ascended Dubai's record-breaking Burj Khalifa skyscraper, hiked Arizona's Grand Canyon, and climbed Mount Everest. Now it's coming to map the U.K.'s canal network.

The U.K.'s Canal and River Trust revealed last week that the Trekker—as Google has dubbed it—will start to capture the U.K.'s 200 year-old canals and waterways.

The 4-foot, 39-pound backpack uses 15 lenses angled in different directions to take photos every two and a half seconds that can be stitched together to create 360-degree panoramic views and help map remote parts of the world.

Volunteers from the Canal and River Trust will carry the backpack over 100 miles a month to map canals and rivers in England and Wales.

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