Cheat the zoom feature on Google Maps, then watch your jaw drop from space

[Little Wing]

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.

[Blue-Jay]

1. .

[Pierre.Suave]

2. what?

???

[Fran Kubelik]

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.

[Little Wing]

4. Thank you for making that so clear

:)

[asthmaticeog]

5. Freakin' cool!

You can see the gigantic old-ass satellite dish in my backyard that nobody ever removed!

[Midlodemocrat]

8. That's not a satellite dish. That;'s my butt.

Okay, not really.

:bounce:

[asthmaticeog]

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.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. HAHA. As if.

I mean, as if my butt could fit in your back window.

:bounce:

:rofl:

Okay, not THAT horrific.

[QMPMom]

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!

[BlueStorm]

7. Hmmm... doesn't seem to work for Grand Rapids...

unless I'm doing something wrong.

Blue

[QMPMom]

9. Did you click on "satellite"? n/t

[BlueStorm]

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

[BarenakedLady]

13. download Google Earth

Much cooler, and free.

http://earth.google.com/

[pinniped]

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?