Google moves among the Inuit in the Arctic to complete his cards

Internet giant Google has launched Wednesday in an expedition to the Arctic Inuit in Canada, in order to perfect his cards in the far north and to raise awareness of this community with millions of online users. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined the Google team arrived in Cambridge Bay, a small village in the Inuit territory of Nunavut, located in northern Canada. "The goal of this project is to share online with the world the beauty of the Canadian Arctic and the Inuit culture that lives here," said the Google team rushed to the site. The IT group California spent nearly a year preparing this mapping project with politicians and the "old" Inuit tribes Cambridge Bay, in the heart of the Arctic Archipelago. "People always ask us how do you live here, to survive. (...) This will help them to understand and learn more about Nunavut," said Anna Nahogaloak, member of the "elders" of the Inuit community In an interview with the Kitikmeot Heritage Society. Nunavut is the most northern territory of Canada. This is also the youngest, having separated from the Northwest Territories in 1999. The "Street View" Google has done work for young and old Inuit to lend their knowledge of the field, such as roads, rivers, local church stone, etc.. "It is important for Inuit to contribute to plans" Google says Anna Nahogaloak who remembers having arrived on the land at the age of ten years, in 1958, transported with his family by dogsled. "This land belongs to everyone, we share it all," she says. A vehicle equipped with a Google image acquisition was 360 ° Thursday to tour the village and then venture into the surrounding tundra. Teams "Street View" have traveled many places in the world to make their online service as accurate as possible, allowing anyone to visit virtually at a given location, not without causing some controversy.