{"id":98732,"date":"2016-07-15T07:45:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T05:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98732"},"modified":"2016-07-15T09:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:33:41","slug":"forget-google-street-view-check-out-360-degree-sheep-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/98732-forget-google-street-view-check-out-360-degree-sheep-view","title":{"rendered":"Forget Google Street View &#8211; Check out 360-degree Sheep View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not every country is fortunate enough to have Google Maps&#8217; awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instantstreetview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Street View<\/strong><\/a> feature, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/7\/13\/12185258\/faroe-islands-sheep-view-360-street-view\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Faroe Islands have a beautiful landscape, but you won&#8217;t be able to see it from Google Maps&#8217; Street View.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why Faroe Islander\u00a0Durita Dahl Andreassen used five sheep to document the islands&#8217; beautiful landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>The images and footage captured have been extraordinary, but Andreassen doesn&#8217;t plan for the sheep to totally replace Street View.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My sheep are great for capturing the tracks and trails of the Faroe Islands,&#8221; Andreassen writes in her petition on the Faroe Islands&#8217; tourist website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in order to cover the big sweeping Faroese roads and the whole of the breathtaking landscapes, we need Google to come and map them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the sheep in action in the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ywdqiyoQNgQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why Pokemon Go hasn\u2019t officially launched in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/98646-this-is-why-pokemon-go-hasnt-officially-launched-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why Pokemon Go hasn\u2019t officially launched in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to At least 3 more Ster-Kinekor IMAX theatres for South Africa on the way\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/98680-at-least-3-more-ster-kinekor-imax-theatres-for-south-africa-on-the-way.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">At least 3 more Ster-Kinekor IMAX theatres for South Africa on the way<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The 5 craziest places people have gone while playing Pokemon GO\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/98380-the-5-craziest-places-people-have-gone-while-playing-pokemon-go.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The 5 craziest places people have gone while playing Pokemon GO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why sheep are replacing Google maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8585],"tags":[20416,20410,1638,14302,20414,20412],"class_list":["post-98732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-gadgets","tag-faroe","tag-geo","tag-google","tag-maps","tag-sheep","tag-street-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98738,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98732\/revisions\/98738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}