dda
07/08/06 06:11 PM
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Did you notice that all the high res pictures don't exist anymore at the zoom level 7 ?
Hard to know if they add new high res zones now...
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AlbinoFlea
07/09/06 01:08 AM
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Yes, I noticed this today as well... this has always been one of the things I've hated about LL and YM. It's unfortunate that Google has jumped on the bandwagon with this.
I guess when the whole planet is available in high-res this will be a non-issue, but those of us that use the funny patchwork of high- and lo- res as a navigational tool to find new stuff will suffer in the mean time.
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dda
07/11/06 03:28 PM
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Looks new for me : zoom with double click.
dda
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kjfitz
07/11/06 07:20 PM
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And anti-zoom with double-click of right-mouse-button.
And the zoom is sort of smooth zoom instead of a 'jump' to the new view.
kjfitz
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dda
07/11/06 08:40 PM
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Smooth zoom only on Windows
http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2006/07/zoooooooom.html
dda
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kjfitz
07/11/06 11:31 PM
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And now they just added these red frame thingies but I don't see that theo correlate to anything in particular. Wonder what they are up to?
kjfitz
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dda
07/12/06 07:21 AM
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"red frame thingies" ? Can't see that. Where ?
dda
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kjfitz
07/12/06 11:46 AM
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Not there now. Fow a while just last night if you double clicked there were four "L" shaped symbols out about an inch from where you doble clicked framing an arbitrary area around where you clicked. As the image zoomed the area "framed" by the symbols would expand respectively. Sort of like the little framing symbols we see on the NASA space images of the 60's. Maybe they were just experimenting with them. Odd.
Usually though, when they experiment with something is shows up full time a day or two later. Personally I saw no added value from them.
kjfitz
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DonMartini
07/12/06 05:45 PM
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It stinks. Now you have to zoom in to see if a zone is available in high resolution. Why oh tell me why...
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dda
07/12/06 06:37 PM
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It's not a problem if you can know where are the highrez maps.
You can check this never been updated page since almost 2 years :
http://earth.google.com/data.html
dda
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kjfitz
07/13/06 12:37 AM
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Also Google Earth still lets you see where the hi res patches are from way up high (for now anyway.)
kjfitz
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romulusnr
07/13/06 12:37 PM
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Yeah, but GM imagery always lags behind GE imagery.
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kjfitz
07/13/06 12:58 PM
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I agree.... until now. Now GM has the new "no hi res patches when viewd at high altitude' but not GE. This is the first time I'm aware of changes being made on images in GM that were not in GE first.
kjfitz
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kjfitz
07/13/06 01:02 PM
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OK, now I see what they did. If you use the mouse to zoom in and zoom out the little red brackets are there. Whether the angles are pointing in or out depends on whether you zoom in or out.
kjfitz
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kjfitz
07/13/06 04:14 PM
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Official Announcement of the zoom feature.
kjfitz
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romulusnr
07/14/06 06:31 PM
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Wow, the brackets are dumb and sort of useless. I remember when GMaps was all about being useful, not about being cute and stupid.
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