Team Walks Florida's Beaches With Google Eye
Google Street View cars have been photographing roads and highways for years, but how about this: Google Beach View. Florida is paying a pair of intrepid trekkers to walk all 825 miles of the state's beachfront carrying the Google Eye camera in a 40 pound backpack — blue orb sticking out the top.
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
And our last word in business is: Paycheck for day at the beach.
Google Street View cars have been photographing roads and highways for years now, but how about this: Google Beach View. The state of Florida is paying a pair of intrepid trekkers to walk all 825 miles of the state's beachfront carrying the Google Eye camera in a 40 pound backpack - the blue orb is sticking out the top. And it's one way to turn heads at the beach.
Florida's tourism agency is paying $126,000 for the project. Small change, really, for a state that brought in $72 billion tourism dollars last year. It's an even better deal for Google, who only have to pay $1,000 for all of the photos. And not too bad a deal for the photographers; they are getting paid $27 a mile. Getting a good workout under the sun.
That's the business news on MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm David Greene.
Copyright © 2013 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information.
NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.