Saturday, March 10, 2007

Super-Close Google Maps Zooms

clipped from: blog.outer-court.com

Super-Close Google Maps Zooms



Holy moly that is a close up zoom of a camel (see my screenshot above) – and it works for other place on Google Maps too! Yes, it turns out that you can zoom in much more deeply onto Google Maps by doing this:


  1. Select a location and switch to satellite view
  2. Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
  3. Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery

The French Ecrans website and Geotrotter have more on this.


What fun images can you find? Please post screenshots.



Playing water ping pong.


It seems he’s looking into the camera, actually.
This is a rare zoom level 23, almost (already?) creating privacy issues people joked about earlier.


Nobody’s in the Googleplex pool.


[Thanks Frank Fuchs!]

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I tried the procedure with a view of my local car park in Poole, Dorset, England. Wow! Click pictures below to see the true 600 x 600 pixel screen images.

you can zoom in much more deeply onto Google Maps http://maps.google.com/ by doing this:
  1. Select a location and switch to satellite view
  2. Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
  3. Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery
In the URL I replaced
z=19
with
z=21
- the increased zoom is impressive!


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