Google Streetview: Appalachian Trail?

For the past unknown number of unknown time increments, Google has been mapping city streets in various locations, like late-Antiquity monks frantically scribing every text they could get their hands on, like something from a Canticle for Leibowitz, but with higher data densities. No matter what might happen, it appears the Church of Google will have recorded our civilization for posterity, but open questions remain as to what a "record" is, and what effect it has on a readership that is, at this point, hypothetical.

There's no upper limit to the distortion an alien culture can make on a data without context- witness the sudden rise of lower case in the Roman script. Something the recorders assigned importance to- letter shape- was actually nothing more than the cursive handwriting of a common scribe.

I imagine artificial intelligences and bio-engineered organisms, survivors of some future catastrophe a thousand years hence, finding Google Streetview and shaping their culture after these pictures of huge cities, their mysterious inhabitants and inexplicable activities. Perhaps they would all choose to make themselves look like classic automobiles. Of all the possible futures, perhaps the one I look forward to the least is the one that resembles a real-life re-enactment of The Transformers.

In any case, it made me curious: would one day a hiker carry the camera and hard drive to do this on the Appalachian trail? There's a reason Google Streetview views mostly from the road. All that data storage is heavy, and I can easily see a through-hiker sacrificing the hardware to some strange god by, oh, Hot Springs. Images of shrines and burning also come to mind. Hikers abhor adding grams, let alone pounds, to their pack weight, especially if the weight is not peanut butter.

My hats off to the first hiker that does it . .