Using the zoom viewer

Many of the panoramas, particularly the large ones, are presented with an interactive "zoom viewer" which requires the Flash plugin. If you don't have the plugin (or there is no zoom view prepared) you will see a large jpeg which you can pan through using the scroll bars of your browser, or download for viewing on your computer.

In the zoom viewer there are many ways to move around. The simplest instructions are:

• Arrow keys for pan around
• Mouse wheel or Shift/CTRL for zoom (The wheel zooms where your mouse is.)
• Right click for menu
• Button in upper right for Fullscreen, ESC to revert

Full screen is strongly recommended for the larger panoramas, but disables all keyboard functions except the arrow keys.

However, here are some other tricks dragging the mouse.

• You can also zoom with +/-, A and Z
• There's a set of controls in the upper left for pan and zoom with mouse clicks.
• You can pan by clicking and dragging with the mouse like google maps. You can also right click and toggle the mouse drag mode. In the alternate mode it starts panning to take you to the direction you drag the mouse but keeps going as long as you hold the button down. Some like this more.

Different views

• To access the regular browser jpeg, go back to the thumbnail page and look for the link that gives the dimensions and size in K of the jpeg. Click on the size in kilobytes.
• There are two types of panoramas: 360 degree full circles, and partial ones. Partial ones begin showing you the whole panorama (with bars top and bottom) and when you zoom in, stop at the elft and right edges.
• 360 panoramas begin with the height of the pano filling the window. You can zoom in, or pan around in a complete circle. In widescreen modes, the left and right edges will be distorted to keep lines straight. You can't zoom out unless you select "Wider view" from the right-click menu. In the wider view you can see up to 180 degrees and distortion at the edges is lessened. To see the whole panorama you must use the browser jpeg at present.
• A few images were never prepared for 360 zoom viewing so you may see a disconnect or overlap where they wrap together.

Fun thing to do: Go into fullscreen mode on a big monitor with a 360 degree panorama. Adjust size to fill screen and hold down arrow keys or pan controls and spin around like you were there. You may get dizzy.

Don't forget to zoom in on your favourite points of interest.