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Josy
21-04-2015, 01:54 PM
Google is positively spoiling Loch Ness monster fans, as it celebrating the 81st anniversary of the famous photograph of the mysterious creature both with both a Doodle on its homepage and a new feature on Maps.



Those determined to spot the elusive Nessie can now use Google Street View to search for the supposed ancient beast online.

When Google Maps users want to explore an area as if they are on foot, the yellow Pegman usually appears. But in the area in and around the Loch, a Nessie peg-monster is replacing the yellow character, giving users the power to zoom into different parts of the lake.

The Scottish tourism board, VisitScotland, says it hopes the globally available feature will heighten the profile of Loch Ness and Scotland.

To create a Google Street View-style map of the loch, expert Adrian Shine spent a number of days at the site with Google’s camera equipment and Catlin Seaview Survey teams, where they took photographs above and below the waters.

The launch of the new feature comes exactly 81 years after the iconic photograph of the Loch Ness Monster by Colonel Robert Wilson was published in the Daily Mail.

The image, known as the Surgeon’s Photograph, appears to show a serpent-like creature rising from the water.

In a tongue-in-cheek attempt to explain how the photograph was created, the Doodle shows aliens manoeuvring a Nessie-shaped contraption powered by cogs under the loch.


Get searching for Nessie guys, she can normally be seen wearing a tartan bunnet :idc:

Fetch The Bolt Cutters
21-04-2015, 02:19 PM
doesn't she work in a casino now

Fetch The Bolt Cutters
21-04-2015, 02:19 PM
http://www.misteriosenlared.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/nessie-y-burns.jpg

found ha

Niamh.
21-04-2015, 02:24 PM
Is that from Google Maps Scott?

Fetch The Bolt Cutters
21-04-2015, 02:27 PM
yeah http://i.imgur.com/M0hBH99.png

arista
21-04-2015, 02:30 PM
Get searching for Nessie guys, she can normally be seen wearing a tartan bunnet :idc:


Its a Big Business up there
selling many mass produced Made in China
for Scotland products.


Ka Ching

Crimson Dynamo
21-04-2015, 02:38 PM
its a genuinely scary place. i went when i was 10 and was terrified

:worry:

its just up the road a bit from me now, give or take

Marsh.
21-04-2015, 03:09 PM
Link please. :hmph: I'm not digitally wandering around Scotland like a loon looking for a mythical creature (LT).