Schuylkill River Trail looking for votes in Google Street View competition

The Schuylkill River Trail could get Google Street View treatment.
The popular recreational trail has been nominated as a finalist for Google’s Street View Trike competition, according to the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.
The Schuylkill is among 24 finalists that were voted on from a pool of 25,000. If it beats four others in the parks and trails category, Google would photograph the trail for its Street View map service.
The Coalition is asking locals to vote for Schuykill against competition like D.C.’s Capital Crescent Trail and others. A win could raise the Schuylkill’s national profile, the organization says, which could give BCGP political clout to help complete the trail’s development. Avid bike advocates that we are at Technically Philly, we’re going to take our journalist caps off for a moment and urge you to keep it local.

Both the river trail and the Street View trike have a history with the local technology community.
In July, software developer Jon Bringhurst created Trail Reporter to track crime along the well-populated bike trail, as we reported. In June, Technically Philly was the first to confirm that a Street View tricycle was roaming Penn’s campus. Google spokesperson Sean Carlson could not confirm with us then whether or not the trike would photograph Philly’s bike paths and off-road trails, but it’s suddenly become a real possibility.
Princeton University was also nominated and is in the running for the competition’s campus category. Voting ends November 30.