| Porthole 12 Jun 12

SEE the world at home.
Google is inviting armchair travellers to
see the world close up, with its new World
Wonders Project.
Launched last week in partnership with
UNESCO, the World Monuments Fund,
Getty Images and Ourplace, the World
Wonders Project aims to preserve world
heritage sites using technology.
As such, the program utilises Google’s
Street View technology to photograph and
map some of the world’s most culturally
significant sites, and allows users to explore
and navigate their way through them.
As such, visitors to the site can search
wonders by location, and after selecting
one can then use their computer mouse to
guide themselves step by step around the
sites as if they were there themselves.
See www.google.com/worldwonders.