A Closer View of Google Maps

[Y-S]

Google Maps has a hidden feature that allows anyone to zoom in extremely close on some satellite pictures. This screenshot shows the closest zoom available for a location in the Sahara desert. Using this hidden feature, you can zoom in a little closer in almost any Metropolitan area, and MUCH closer in select areas.

Here’s Google Blogoscoped’s instructions on utilizing this feature:

• 1. Select a location and switch to satellite view
• 2. Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
• 3. Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...964&spn=0.002137,0.002849&t=k&om=1&iwloc=addr

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[ThaG]

wow, amazing, but where is that "z" in the URL

 

[IronLungs420]

crazy

 

[X_KaLiBa]

wow, amazing, but where is that "z" in the URL

make sure to:

2. Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right

 

[ThaG]

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=15.792254,-1.845703&spn=0.04336,0.079651&t=k&om=1

that "z"?

because nothing really happens after I chnage it...

 

[28g w/o the bag]

haha wtf?

i'm looking at a camel herd and shit

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[TROLL]

yeah im having a hard time finding the Z parameter too.

 

[Hemp]

if you cant find it then try adding it. it would still read Z if Z stands for something on the page

 

[xpanther206]

I've been using that program for a few years now, it's unbelievable.

Any sacred place in hip-hop, from where it was supposedly started, to all the various rappers neighborhoods of origin I've mapped in a file where you can click play and it flies around to all of those spots, it's basically just an aerial tour of hip-hop.

It's pretty fuckin cool to fly around and see how ghettos in different parts of the country are very different from one another.