Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth (ExtremeTech)
Chapter 2: The Google Local Interface The main content of the window is the map panel that shows the current map view. In the to ...
16 Part I — Basics The zoom levels, starting from the bottom of the slider (and through increasing levels of zoom), are as follo ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 17 FIGURE2-2: A map of the world. At 50 miles (Figure 2-3), you start to see the detail ...
18 Part I — Basics FIGURE2-3: A map of the south of the U.K. ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 19 FIGURE2-4: Greenwich and greater London. At 200 feet (Figure 2-5), you can almost ima ...
20 Part I — Basics FIGURE2-5: Greenwich map at the highest resolution. In comparison, look at the satellite images (taken at the ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 21 FIGURE2-6: The whole world as a satellite image. At 50 miles (Figure 2-7), you can se ...
22 Part I — Basics FIGURE2-7: Greenwich at 50-mile resolution. At 1 mile (Figure 2-8), you can see the shape of the river (and ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 23 FIGURE2-8: Greenwich and Greater London at 1-mile resolution. At the closest zoom lev ...
24 Part I — Basics FIGURE2-9: Closest zoom on the National Maritime Museum. Just as Google Maps and Google Earth images are not ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 25 Occasionally, satellite information is obscured by cloud cover (see Figure 2-10). This ...
26 Part I — Basics FIGURE2-11: A map of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Google Maps also shows country, state, and county boundar ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 27 FIGURE2-12: A satellite image of lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Hybrid maps:This type ...
28 Part I — Basics FIGURE2-13: A hybrid map of lower Manhattan. Conducting Searches Searches within Google Local return two type ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 29 FIGURE2-14: Address information for the National Maritime Museum. If the information y ...
30 Part I — Basics FIGURE2-15: Plumbers in New York. If Google cannot discern from the string you have entered whether it should ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 31 Markers Markers are simple little icons that show the precise position of a business o ...
32 Part I — Basics The information content of a pop-up is completely customizable. Because the base of the con- tent is HTML, yo ...
Chapter 2 — The Google Local Interface 33 With some further programming tricks within the browser, you can build in additional o ...
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