An incredibly detailed bird's eye view of Shanghai.
"Faces and licence plates are among the details that can be clearly seen in an ultra-high-resolution bird's-eye photograph of Shanghai, created by Chinese company Bigpixel Technology," according to an article by Rima Sabina Aouf.
"Shot from 230 metres up the city's Oriental Pearl Tower, the BigPixel image offers a 360-degree panorama of Shanghai that users can pan across and zoom into, so that even people and objects at ground level appear identifiable."
"The clarity comes because the image is made up of 195 gigapixels — that is 195 billion pixels, or 195,000 megapixels. As a reference point, the latest iPhone camera takes photos at 12 megapixels."
Click through to the source article to feast your eyes.
FULL STORY: 195-gigapixel photo of Shanghai allows viewers to zoom in on street-level detail
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