Zooming in...

Epicuros

This may not be the right chapter to post this question but it appeared to me the closest:
I recall having visited a web site, where a large city was shown from a vantage point and you had the possibility to zoom in on several windows all over the city and have a blown up photo of the inside. It was interesting but I have forgotten the URL. Can anyone provide a link (or clue) to this site? Thanks

schmoo

Hi and wow, that sounds really cool. I don't know which site that was but I'll move this over to the Big Picture forum for you, for more eyes. Good luck!

ThatCanonGuy

Sounds kinda like Google Maps. You know, with the street view.

DavidTO

This?

Epicuros

Although interesting, it is not 26 Gpixel Paris or 10GP Vancouver. In the photo I am searching for, you could click on specific points marked on the photo (mostly windows of buildings) and you could see a blown up view of the room and the people in it. It was not just any window but those that the photographer chose to have made a photo of, apparently by means of a powerful telescope rather than with a common telelens, which in the best case, cannot go beyond 1200mm or even 2400 with a 2X converter.

moose135

I remember something like that from a number of years ago. I think it was a university project in Germany or Austria, maybe. They set up a camera with a large zoom on the roof of a building, and using a computer controlled mechanism, took thousands (?) of photos of the city, then stitched them all together. As a whole, it was an overview of the city, but you could zoom in to see all the details. I don't think you were limited to particular areas of the photo that could be zoomed to.