Interesting Places Primer Tutorial
We had the good fortune to come across the great (coffee table) book The Earth from the Air by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (ISBN: 9780500544846) recently, showing really interesting airborne views of the Earth, the world over. Simply stunning photography!
Also great with this book was its supply of geographical positions for these interesting Earth places.
So we decided to base a new web application, today, harnessing ….
… and in particular with the latter the use of its …
var options = {
zoomLevel: 19
}
… zooming capabilities, that “19” being the maximal zoom required for really accurate Google Maps place scenarios, as distinct from our use of a zoomLevel:11 for your more general zooming in requirements matching the geographical values supplied by The Earth from the Air.
Why not “zoom” around yourself with this live run link with underlying HTML and Javascript and CSS as per interesting_earth_air_based_map_places.html that is downloadable as per usual.
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