We wish we had thought of it ourselves, but the credit goes to Greg Downing and the team at XRez for using Google Maps to display high resolution images. By using a zoom lens and stitching software you can capture in scene in extremely high resolution - typically in excess of 95,000 by 40,000 pixels using a 300mm lens and 612 overlapping images.
If you then take the technology behind Google Maps and replace the maps with the resulting image you get a plugin free navigation tool.
The XRez site is well worth a visit...
Actually, there is a service that allows you to easily do this with any photo: MapLib.net.
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