Anyone interested in starting a list of interesting Google Map views? I have three to start:

Paris, Arc de Triomphe - from above you see the how the square is laid out and designed.
http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/viewpoint.asp?x=2.2950482...8.8736880120847&z=18

Oslo, Norway - a cloud covers much of the city!!
http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/viewpoint.asp?x=10.750207....91007231199297&z=15

Moreton-in-Marsh, England - what is that shiney thing on the left side?
http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/viewpoint.asp?x=-1.703138...1.9901823944267&z=18

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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:

http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/viewpoint.asp?x=LONGITUDE&y=LATITUDE&z=ZOOM

Post the links to interesting things that you find in this thread.

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.

Okay - let's see if this works:

Avebury

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.

Lucca, Italy - the walls look beautiful from above
http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/viewpoint.asp?x=10.505418....84384401648871&z=15

Philadelphia Museum of Art, sitting next to the Schuylkill River.

The Swiss Alps

Good ones Terry! I love the look of the Alps from above!! And, Kim - doesn't Avebury look great? You can see the standing stones.

And here is where you will find me and Steve most mornings - sitting outside at DTS having coffee and a bagel:
Santa Fe - Downtown Subscription

great shots: yes thats why the place where the arc de triomphe is in french is the Etoile; the Star!

also left you a message on the other question thread since cannot find the google map you did for me; please:thank you!!

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All published Google Maps are listed, by country, on the main Google Maps page:
http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/

Here is the link to your map Pedmar:

Versailles and Saint Germain-en-Laye

Versailles looks great in a detailed satellite view.

thanks its almost midnite here so i give up but have it booked for tomorrow working on it

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.

I wish I was a bird.

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!!!!!!

Hmm. Where exactly was that, Poet?

Hey i am just starting googling so i would like to know too Poet123...huh!

And one more, the Grand Canal of Venice. You can see the Piazza San Marco near the bottom right. Neat.

If you move the arrows and center over Piazza San Marco, then start to zoom in slowly, you can see the shadow cast by the Campanile.

Stonehenge

The beauty of the Grand Canyon in Northern Arizona.

Labyrinth at Grace Cathedral, Knob Hill, San Francisco, California

Interesting clouds and shadows over Rome, near the Tiber. Slow View

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!!

ha ha ha!! very funny poet123.
yes i know the area just kidding....

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.

It may well be an urban myth but in was in all the papers in the UK one day last week andit wasn't April 1st!!

Pauline, they are beautiful. I really love the natural designs. The clouds are breathtaking.


Here's The Washington Monument and the Eiffel Tower

Those are fabulous - especially the Eiffel Tower - wow!

I couldn't get it on the Slow Travel version of Google Earth, but if you have Google Earth, Ayers Rock in Australia is worth taking a look at.

Here it is:
Ayers Rock in Australia

We just added "search by address" to the Slow Travel GMap Pointer. I typed in Ayers Rock Australia and went right to it.

I'm sleeping in a car?My hotel address in Paris is 70 Avenue des Champs-Elysées. According to Google maps this is a car.

dpb and Pauline -

Ayers Rock rocks! Excellent!

Here's Mt. St. Helen's, Three Mile Island, and Disney World.

Terry, those are excellent!!

Dana, that does indeed look like a car, not an apartment!

Here is another one, close to home (for me):

White Sands National Monument in New Mexico

I have never been there - but it sure looks interesting!

Statue of Liberty - New York

With that search by address, this is much easier. I just put Statue of Liberty and it took me right there.

Slow Travel Google Maps Pointer

Something fun in Canada:

Toronto City Hall

A friend of mine works there!

Definitely having fun with these.

Loved your latest, Pauline.

On a more somber note, here's the World Trade Center site.

Fantastic magnifique!!! sacré bleu; holy cow!!
wonderful Eiffel tower just move it a little bit and you see the Bateaux parisien dock to the left and if i go to the right can see my american friends building awesome.

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Originally posted by teaberry:
Pauline, they are beautiful. I really love the natural designs. The clouds are breathtaking.


Here's The Washington Monument and the Eiffel Tower

Here's what Niagara Falls looks like.

And the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

I tried to do a couple of places in Hawaii, but it is not working for me. I don't know what I am doing wrong. I was able to find a location but when I pasted the coordinates and zoom level into the URL I ended up with a blank page?? I tried on both a mac and a pc so it can't be a computer issue. Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I would be happy to do some Hawaii sites if I can just figure it out. Maybe it is a good thing though as the google maps are SO addicting!
thanks.

girasoli -

I had trouble the first time I tried it, then I realized that the "x" numbers are the longitude and the "y" numbers are the latitude. Once I straightened that out, it went fine.

I hope that's what your problem was.

Or you could paste in the coordinates and zoom here and we will build the link and see if we can get it to work. Probably what Terry said is your problem though.

What I'll be strolling on in about 3 weeks! Charles Bridge-Prague

I hope this works?

I found this very odd highway on Google Maps last spring when I was planning our trip to Puglia.
I've posted it as far away as possible so you can see how truly large it is.
When you zoom in you will see that the highway has regular lane dashes, and the countryside inside the highway appears to contain a variety of crop plantings.
I meant to try to find out what this was, while we were there, but then forgot about it.
Anyone have ideas?

http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/viewpoint.asp?x=40.327701...=17.81982421875&z=11

I don't understand why this didn't work, the coordinates match the ones next to my view, but the image is Yemen instead of the west central coast of Puglia like it should be.
What am I doing wrong?

Deborah, check the coordinates. For me that's the middle of the Red Sea (between Africa and Arabia).
(You found that first. This was a reply to where you posted the link.)

When I put my marker smack dab in the middle of the view and the past the coordinates, I still end up in the water off the coast of Yemen.
I've done it 3 times with the same results.

You are reversing Latitude and Longitude. The order in the URL is opposite from the pointer page (I asked Steve about this and got an answer that I did not understand, something to do with math and X and Y):

Slow View of Puglia

Is that it?

Well that was easy to fix. Thanks Terry and Pauline. Ok..here is my first try.

Diamond Head

That circular road - midway between Manduria and Nardo - is marked on my Puglia maps as 'pista Fiat', and I've been meaning to go and see it for ages! Whether it's still used by them I don't know: a quick Google didn't come up with anything useful.

But, Deborah, how did you manage to zoom in? Pauine's slow view won't zoom any closer...

Jonathan

http://www.slowtrav.com/gmaps/viewpoint.asp?x=17.819824...327701904195926&z=11

Thanks Pauline, trying again.

Strange... the zooming works now! Anyway, Deborah, my post tells you a bit about it - and those buildings inside the circle look recent, so maybe it's current Fiat testing facility.

We're in Ostuni at the end of this month, but probably car-less on this trip, so I might not be able to go and have a look until next year!

Frustratingly, the area of 'satellite' imagery is very variable in Puglia (as it is here in Gloucestershire): Ostuni and Stroud are both very blurred, whereas some towns very nearby have far better photoviews.

Jonathan

Jonathan, When you look as some of the curvy tracks inside the circle, they look overgrown and unused.
The paved area with the circles in the bottom left look like where they do tight-circle tests.
Wish we could zoom in far enough to see the make and model of the cars on the track. That might tell us how recently it was used. Or maybe it would only tell us how recently the picture was taken.
It looks like from the guide that the thing is more than 3KMs in diameter. That's huge.
I know what you mean about the spotty resolution. I'd love to see the trulli better. And also west into Basilicata to see Matera

Diamond Head looks great!!

I always love looking out the airplane window and seeing the towns or landscape below us. This is very similar!