The “Street View from the Ocean” programme will take panoramic photographs of the Sanriku coast on the north-east of Japan’s main island of Honshu, says the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. The craft will work its way along the coast recording how areas are recovering from the March 2011 tsunami disaster, with other land-based shots being taken by workers carrying recording equipment on their backs. The mayor of Kesennuma told the paper that the mapping project would show “future generations the mood of recovery in these coastal areas”. Read More
