------------------------------------ Go to www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/pointer/ . This screen lets you move around and zoom in. Use the Country shortcuts list on the side to more quickly get to a place. (Steve is just about to add the ability to locate a place by address or town/country name - we are testing it now.)
Click the marker when you find an interesting view. The coordinates and zoom level are displayed on the right. Paste them into this URL:
Pauline - before I start playing, I just wanted to comment on:
1) Arc de Triomphe - I had no idea that it was sitting in the middle of a star-shaped paver pattern. I guess you can only appreciate that from the air (or on top of the Arc). Great photo.
2)Moreton-in-Marsh - is that a boomerang from Australia????
Many thanks to you and Steve for setting this all up. What fun.
Editing to add - it's too zoomed in - you have to come out one level to see the circle around the village. Okay - I played with it, let's see if that works.
Here is somewhere over China. I was looking for the Great Wall, but I loved the colors and patterns of this area so much - almost looks like a watercolor.
There was a report in the press yesterday that certain google maps were so clear people were clearly visible, and some doing stuff they would prefer not to have beamed worldwide via satellite!!!!!!
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Apparently it was in the Amsterdam area and included naked synbathers (I typed that last word in error but I guess it was a freudian slip!)should read sunbathers.It was in the red light district, so probably the participants were not too shy!! Their faces were not recognisable obviously, but it has started a trend to zoom in and see what is going on elsewhere. Google were quoted as saying it was an interesting side effect of the educational aspect of the software!!
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Another fun urban myth, I'd say. If you Search the Map for "vondelpark amsterdam" and zoom in, you can just see what are probably blankets on the lawns, but no Google licensed aerial photos are yet quite good enough to see individual people in any kind of detail.
And the highest resolution are just that--taken from low flying airplanes, not creepy spy satellites.
Thanks! Bucky "Trying To Slow Down" Edgett
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