Google Maps. In the Desert. On a Camel.

A co-worker said they were doing this and I laughed it off until he sent me a link... I was both impressed and surprised.

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Google's Street View cameras have been carried around on cars, boats, people, and now camels. The company recently set out to capture 360-degree imagery of the Arabian desert, and to "minimize" disruptions of what Google calls a "delicate environment," the Maps team affixed its Trekker camera onto the back of a dromedary named Raffia. It's safe to assume that before Google came along, Raffia had never transported anything quite like this through the desert.

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LINK

(I searched, but not very hard)