{"id":404,"date":"2014-05-15T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=404"},"modified":"2014-05-15T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:27:01","slug":"google-piste-view-adds-more-ski-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/google-piste-view-adds-more-ski-resorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Google &#8216;Piste View&#8217; adds more ski resorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously we&#8217;d prefer to be out on the slopes, but if you can&#8217;t make it there in person, Google are making it easier than ever to imagine you&#8217;re there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First resort with &#8216;Piste View&#8217; was Whistler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After starting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/whistler\">Whistler<\/a> in the lead up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Google has now mapped 75 different ski resorts in North America and Europe using their &#8216;Street View&#8217; technology.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UJ4pgcrJU8c\">video<\/a> tells you a little bit about Google&#8217;s original motivation and how they manage to film &#8216;Piste View&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UJ4pgcrJU8c?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>75 ski resorts already available<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are now 75 resorts with &#8216;Piste View&#8217; available. \u00a0 You can view them all on this map (click to open the map in a new window).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mapsengine.google.com\/map\/edit?mid=zFBB4AfY61ug.kToqGIJ2NLXY\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-405 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map.png\" alt=\"Google Ski resort street view map\" width=\"537\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map.png 537w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-190x102.png 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-60x32.png 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-400x216.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Andorra, France and Italy all featured<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The majority of the resorts are in Scandinavia (the Norwegian Google office have obviously been busy).<\/p>\n<p>Resorts more popular with the British include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/soldeu-el-tarter\">Grandvalira<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/arinsal\">Vallnord<\/a> in Andorra, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-thorens\">Val Thorens<\/a> in France and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/cervinia\">Cervinia<\/a> in Italy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cervinia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cervinia-1024x471.png\" alt=\"Cervinia street view\" width=\"510\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cervinia-1024x471.png 1024w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cervinia-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cervinia-190x87.png 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cervinia-60x27.png 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cervinia-400x184.png 400w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cervinia.png 1350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No doubt more resorts will be added in due course, so whether you are planning your holiday or just missing the snow, Google may well (again) be your first port of call&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;after booking your catered chalet holiday through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/\">Chaletline<\/a>, of course!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Article by\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #333366;\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107961348339974741522\/about?rel=author\">Iain Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/google-piste-view-adds-more-ski-resorts\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-190x102.png);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/map-190x102.png<\/a><p>Obviously we&#8217;d prefer to be out on the slopes, but if you can&#8217;t make it there in person, Google are making it easier than ever to imagine you&#8217;re there. First resort with &#8216;Piste View&#8217; was Whistler After starting with Whistler &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/google-piste-view-adds-more-ski-resorts\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,157,86],"tags":[160,158,159,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}