(Rather surprised that the list address isn't in the reply-to, but oh well...)
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For kicks, I decided to "fly" west from my home in Brooklyn (start at
decent height above street level and hold down the left arrow), but by
the time I got bored I hadn't even made it out of New Jersey.
The only thing missing was an Indiana Jones-themed airplane icon in the middle.
Was the most literal sense of distance I'd gotten from a map system
ever, however. Scale legends are requisites, but for a pure visceral
effect nothing beats time.