How Are They DOING This?

One of the many places where people are playing with Google Maps is Google Sightseeing ("Why bother seeing the world for real?"). Contributors hunt up particularly telling images from areas where the satellite files are good enough for close zooming.
But you don't need Google Sightseeing to do it. You can get Google Maps' satellite view to show you every tree on Cerro La Jara in the Valles Caldera. Visit the place where the arroyo goes between the cliffs at Diablo Canyon. Or follow the course of the east fork of the Jemez. Find Black Mesa from the air again. See the library from the air, and the Plaza (where there seems to have been a tented event on the day the satellite camera came by.) To fly across the landscape as your hand moves, just hold the mouse button down.

Well, ok, seeing it for real is good too. Cerro La Jara: The link to Google Sightseeing came from Paul Miller at Common Information Environment.