Wasn't it Gilles Tran who wrote:
>

>ehgbjn$g2o$1@chho.imagico.de...
>>
>> I am pleased to announce that the 5 Gigapixel Image:
>>
>> http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/
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>> has been completely rendered now.  AFAIK it is at the moment the most 
>> detailed image generated using 3d rendering techniques.
>
>Great stuff! It could be interesting to (ab)use the Google Maps API to 
>display the images, like this guy did with his artwork 
>http://www.microtyp.org/
>See http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

I've tried it. Only at the medium resolution range 
(like http://earth.imagico.de/5gp/tiles/99B_large.jpg)
where all the tiles exist.

There's a bit of a problem at the moment with the Google API when using
custom tiles running from slow image servers. The code was written to
use the fast Google tile servers and has a tendency to not wait quite
long enough for images from slower servers. Google did log it as a bug a
while ago, but it's not fixed yet. It causes some tiles to be omitted
from the render, leaving big grey holes.

I imagine that viewing the tiles this way might be a considerable drain
on earth.imagico.de, so I'll not publish it.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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