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This page tries to provide some insight into the beautiful detail of RoutePlanner Europe and RoutePlanner USA, the road map and route planning application for Palm©OS handhelds. In the screenshots below, we'll zoom into the map of California by a factor of 1,000,000 in several steps.

| Zooming in 1,000,000 times

Zooming out completely, the screen covers an area of some 1,300,000 square kilometers. The state of California just about fits on the screen at this level, and there is little need to show more than the largest roads:
Having zoomed in a bit using the zoom bar on the right, the screen now covers an area of about 90,000 square kilometers. With some added detail, the heavily populated area around Los Angeles is clearly recognizable:
Zooming to an area of some 2,000 square kilometers, individual cities and their connecting road networks can be clearly distinguished:
When we zoom in to cover some 600 square kilometers, it is worth increasing the detail to show regional and local roads:
Zooming in to the central 25 square kilometers of Los Angeles, we can discern the major local roads within the city limits. :
When we finally zoom to the maximum level of detail, we get to an area of little more than a square kilometer around the center of Los Angeles:
See also:
Europe version, USA version, Ordering

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