Google Drove A Tiny Street View Car Around The World’s Biggest Model Train Set. It Was Adorable.

Since its first introduction in 2007, Google Street View has been a lifesaver for directionally-challenged people everywhere. Being able to exhaustively cross-check the intersection you’re standing on with the intersection on your phone screen has cut down drunken walks home by millions of hours. Street View has photographed countless streets, been to some of the world’s remotest areas, and caught more than one person just waving their dick around by the side of the road for no apparent reason.

For Street View’s latest project, though, instead of going large-scale they went in the opposite direction. Teaming up with Miniatur Wunderland, a vast model railway set in Hamburg, they’ve strapped a miniscule camera onto a toy-size Street View car, and set it loose on the streets of Wunderland to map the world’s largest toy railroad. And the world’s largest toy railroad, for reference, is substantially larger than the one Reverend Lovejoy has in his basement.

You can explore the teeny, delightfully twee world Street View mapped in-depth here, or just get a glimpse into how they made it come together below.