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Stay safe in the heat: Drink plenty of water, spend time in the shade, and visit the first aid station at Soissons Landing if you feel unwell. Click here for important warm weather visitor information.

Stay safe in the heat: Drink plenty of water, spend time in the shade, and visit the first aid station at Soissons Landing if you feel unwell. Click here for important warm weather visitor information.

Putting Gov­er­nors Island on the Map — Literally

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Google has final­ly put us on the map! Ear­li­er this sum­mer, the Google Street View car  paid a vis­it to Gov­er­nors Island (see below). Now, a small but stun­ning por­tion of the Island is vis­i­ble in Google Street View. For those of you who have yet to expe­ri­ence the won­der that is Street View, it’s a func­tion with­in the online Google Maps pro­gram that allows you see 360 degree hor­i­zon­tal and 290 degree ver­ti­cal panoram­ic views of posi­tions along streets around the world. Streets View answers the ques­tion What’s it like there?” in a way that a sta­t­ic map nev­er could. Help put MORE of Gov­er­nors Island on the Map! We think peo­ple should be able to explore the whole Island in Street View, so we’re lob­by­ing Google to expand its cov­er­age. You can help! Google is now tak­ing sug­ges­tions for places to explore with their new Street View TRI­CY­CLE. There’s a spe­cial form on their web­site, and you have until Octo­ber 28 to sub­mit your sug­ges­tions to them. When the Google car was out here this sum­mer, we tried to squeeze into Fort Jay and Cas­tle Williams, but the vehi­cle was too big. It was too big for Nolan Park and oth­er parts of our car-free Island. We’re think­ing the Google tri­cy­cle would do the trick. And we all know that good things come on tri­cy­cles. [cap­tion id=“attachment_2321” align=“aligncenter” width=“542” caption=“The Google Streets View van explor­ing Gov­er­nors Island”]Google and Graduation 023[/​caption]