Carrickfergus town centre is currently the subject of what is thought to be a world-first in technology. A team of Google Business photographers are currently shooting in and around the town centre with a view to creating a virtual tour of the streetscape and retail premises which will eventually encompass the entire town-centre area. If this ambitious project can be completed as envisioned, it is thought to be the first time world-wide that a town has been captured in this fashion in its entirety.
John M. Lynch, who is the Google Business Photographer tasked with co-ordinating the project comments: “This is an immensely ambitious project and a huge but rewarding challenge for us. As far as I can determine from internal discussions with Google, a project of this scale and level of co-operation has never been undertaken previously and will really put Carrickfergus at the vanguard of this exciting virtual mapping technology”.
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