Grand Canyon posts -- addendum: Desert landscapes and Google maps

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Here is a link to the interactive expedition map.



All of the pics in this post are screen shots from Google maps.  I don't know that any of this particular bit of landscape appears in any of my pics. I did mark the location of the first image in the expedition map.  It has a purple camera symbol.  It's the only gray pin-on-map symbol on the map.


I was blown away by how far one can zoom down in on the land right around the Grand Canyon.  (That pic of those black areas, in the previous post, went down to a scale of "so much on the map" is 1000 feet.  Here, you can go down to 50 feet!)



Struck by how beautiful this all is............

The next one is part of the lower left quadrant of the previous.  Doesn't that leftmost bit look like a leaf?  A big crisp rex begonia leaf.  Only in subdued colors......

The next one is the top/middle of the previous.  Part of the leaf's stem....

The next one is the middle of the right edge of the previous.

This one is just a bit to the right of the previous one.  It includes a bit of what's right of around the middle of the right edge of the prev.

This is as far in as you can zoom in this location.  This is the pale rock nearest the top right corner of the previous.  You can see the scale thingie in the bottom right -- that much is 50 feet.

Boggles the mind that one can zoom in so close.  !!!  If there were people dressed in red in this image, we'd see them.......................

After I started looking back and forth between Google maps and my images, working on the "going home" post, I kept trying to zoom, and/or move from side to side, in my images, as I can in Google maps.  Alas, my images are static..............

Isn't it amazing that we can look at our world in this way?  Zoom in, zoom out, move from side to side.....   Figure out where we were, when we flew by in an airplane?  So cool...............


I keep thinking I'm done -- here's a screen shot of the expedition map.  This was really fun to do.  What a great toy!

Here is a link to a Smithsonian page which has video of flying over Bryce Canyon.

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