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tonyburton

Aug 17, 2012, 7:46 AM

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Google Street View of Mexican Archaeological Sites

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In association with INAH, Google Street View is apparently now available for about 30 major archaeological sites in Mexico.
These include Teotihuacan, Chichén Itzá, Xochicalco, Monte Albán, Tulum, el Tajín, Palenque, Bonampak, Tula, Cholula, Paquimé, Cuiculco, Becán, Uxmal, Yagul, Kabah [can't vouch for all since I haven't had chance to explore them yet]

For a sample: Tulum Archaeological Site [Site is Point B]
Click and drag the "Pegman" so that its little green circle is immediately over point B to enter street view.
No doubt there is some other way to do this that I don't know about...

Enjoy!

(This post was edited by tonyburton on Aug 17, 2012, 7:51 AM)

Marlene

Aug 18, 2012, 6:11 AM

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Re: [tonyburton] Google Street View of Mexican Archaeological Sites

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Thanks Tony! That is pretty cool.

AlanMexicali

Aug 19, 2012, 4:01 AM

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Re: [tonyburton] Google Street View of Mexican Archaeological Sites

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My wife and I were just on a 2 week private bus tour of the Yucatan Peninsula and Veracruz last month and we stopped at many of the sites, including Tulum. I took a photo of a Google Map Street View car in the parking garage of our hotel on the Zocalo in Veracruz. I wonder if that is why the car was there? This is cool as they had to allow the car to drive down the walkways at the sites. I took my video camera and the sites
[El Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)] charged me an extra $45.00 pesos to take it in with me.

I found the street view of the Tulum site, but it was difficult to get to and not Point B as you described [that was a resort hotel on Cozumel]. I clicked on the "Mayan Ruins of Tulum" icon in the middle of the water until it went to street view and it came up inside the park´s walking trails.

(This post was edited by AlanMexicali on Aug 19, 2012, 6:36 AM)