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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 08:20 PM
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Cheat the zoom feature on Google Maps, then watch your jaw drop from space
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=15.298683+19.429651&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=23&ll=15.298684,19.429651&spn=0.001291,0.002698&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr


Apparently if you find a place you want to look at, hit "Link to this page" then change the 'z' value in the URL to something like 20,21,22,23 some areas of the world will have unbelievably close zooms.
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 08:27 PM
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1. .
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 08:33 PM
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2. what?
???
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Fran Kubelik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 08:34 PM
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3. Apparently
if you find a place you want to look at, hit \"Link to this page\" then change the \'z\' value in the URL to something like 20,21,22,23 some areas of the world will have unbelievably close zooms.
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 08:38 PM
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4. Thank you for making that so clear
:)
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 09:13 PM
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5. Freakin' cool!
You can see the gigantic old-ass satellite dish in my backyard that nobody ever removed!
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 11:44 PM
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8. That's not a satellite dish. That;'s my butt.
Okay, not really.

:bounce:
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 11:48 PM
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10. OK, that was just weird.
But what's weirder is I just checked out the back window to make sure it wasn't your butt.
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 11:49 PM
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11. HAHA. As if.
I mean, as if my butt could fit in your back window.

:bounce:

:rofl:

Okay, not THAT horrific.
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QMPMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 11:29 PM
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6. Well, the parents still have the cover on the pool! LOL! My parking
space at my old high school is empty and someone has apparently remodeled the house that I grew up in.

The zoom when you do that is amazing!
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BlueStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 11:42 PM
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7. Hmmm... doesn't seem to work for Grand Rapids...
unless I'm doing something wrong.

Blue
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QMPMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 11:44 PM
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9. Did you click on "satellite"? n/t
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BlueStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 11:51 PM
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12. Yeah I did but the value thing doesn't seem to work...
plus it's all green and difficult to look at.

I wanna see my house from space dammit!!!

Blue
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-07-07 11:57 PM
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13. download Google Earth
Much cooler, and free.

http://earth.google.com/
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-08-07 02:36 AM
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14. I got it working but can't find any super hi-res shots like the one you found in Africa.
Maybe we can see thru the oculus in the Pantheon?
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