# Angkor Wat Added to Google Street View

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angkor-wat-added-to-google-street-view/685454>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 6, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angkor-wat-added-to-google-street-view/685454 "2014-04-06T03:05:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angkor-wat-added-to-google-street-view/685454/1 "2014-04-06T03:05:10Z")

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For the armchair traveler. Story [here](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/computing/Google-adds-Cambodias-Angkor-temples-Street-View/articleshow/33184840.cms). Soon one will never have to leave home to travel the world thanks to virtual reality.

And while I’m at it, there’s some good drone footage of Cambodia [here](http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/08/drone-footage-shows-beautiful-cambodian-landscape/).

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angkor-wat-added-to-google-street-view/685454/2 "2014-04-06T03:10:58Z")

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they had one of those camera units on an elephant.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angkor-wat-added-to-google-street-view/685454/3 "2014-04-06T03:13:44Z")

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A tuskcam!

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2014, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angkor-wat-added-to-google-street-view/685454/4 "2014-04-06T14:11:46Z")

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Very disappointting trend by Streetview. The whole idea of Google Streetview was to enable users to see parts of a country that are NOT already easily found in many other sources. Angkor Wat is the only thing in Cambodia that anybody has ever seen a picture of, and it still is, thanks to this complete waste of an amazing resource… What would be the value of streetview, if in the USA it only showed things like Mount Rushmore and the Washington Monument? I guess it could have been easily predicted that the greatest of developments will be quickly watered down to appeal mainly to Twitter users.