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Google’s familiar Street View camera cars are back in Toronto, this time to help out their three-wheeled friends. The vehicles, covered in a Google Maps design, are in town to help ferry Google’s new 180-kilogram pedicabs from place to place as they photograph panoramic shots of hard-to-reach areas like trails and university campuses. The cars will also capture updated photos of public areas to reflect changes in the streetscape.

Google rolled out trikes in Toronto in July to capture photos of areas unreachable by cars, like Toronto Island, Black Creek Pioneer Village and Canada’s Wonderland. The California-based company updates images when there are significant physical changes to an area, says Google communications manager Wendy Rozeluk.

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“We get feedback from people saying there’s a new road or this region has change she said. “When new subdivisions show up or new exits on the highway are built. In those cases, we get notes from folks and try to update things as often as possible.”