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.