{"id":9297,"date":"2019-09-26T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2019-09-26T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T20:36:55","slug":"meet-the-photographer-single-handedly-putting-zimbabwe-on-google-street-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/26\/meet-the-photographer-single-handedly-putting-zimbabwe-on-google-street-view\/","title":{"rendered":"“Meet the Photographer Single-Handedly Putting Zimbabwe on Google Street View”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tawanda Kanhema is a Zimbabwe-born PM working in Silicon Valley who\u2019s spending his own time & money using equipment borrowed from Google & Insta360 to help map his home country. According to NPR<\/a>,<\/p>\n

In 2018, Kanhema applied to borrow a 360-degree camera through Google’s Street View camera loan program<\/a>, and in the fall, he took a two-week trek through Zimbabwe with the equipment. There was a speedboat ride across the Zambezi River and a safari trip through a national park. Most of his time, though, was spent driving down the streets of Harare and the highways that connect Zimbabwe’s major cities. [\u2026]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Most recently, in March, the Mushkegowuk Council, in northern Ontario, paid him to document the network of ice roads that connect indigenous communities in the area\u2026 Next up, Kanhema says he might head to Greenland, or maybe Alaska or Mozambique \u2014 and you’ll be able to see everything he has seen by clicking on Google Maps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rock on, man!<\/p>\n