google maps has extreme close ups in africa. the way that you can zoom in this far is through changing the z variable in the URL to some value (usually at most 23 from what I read).
in the links in that above page that say “images at this zoom aren’t shown”, click on “link to this page” to get the url, and then change the Z variable to 22 (or 21) there. zooming out will work too – but to zoom back in for others, you’ll have to do the “link to this page” and change z to 23 anyway.
if all this is too complex just look at the pretty pictures. crazy…
Ahh Google Earth. Not very surprising that it can provide hours of entertainment. I actually used google maps to look at my house in Argentina and my elementary school and a bunch of other landmarks that I used to visit.
wow! that’s outrageously awesome! you can even see the terrorists in these pictures at this kind of resolution! :P