This image is incredible.
It’s an 18GB panoramic photo of Prague.
This image is currently (as of 12/2009) the largest spherical panoramic photo in the world. It is 192,000 pixels wide and 96,000 pixels tall. That’s 18.4 billion pixels, or 18.4 gigapixels! When it’s printed, it will be 16 meters (53 feet) long at regular photographic quality (300dpi).
You can zoom and zoom and zoom and zoom, and then the most fun part is zooming back out again. You can see birds sitting on the windows of the furthest buildings. Amazing.
(h/t Richard Wiseman)
Very cool, indeed. If you zoom straight east, you can see the smoke/vapor coming from a smokestack that’s not even visible in the zoomed out version….