Of course the details in this gigapixel pano don’t show up on this screenshot, but the original was made with ICE from about 60 full-resolution shots. It consisted of three rows of about 20 shots each with more than 50% overlap at full resolution...
Microsoft’s ICE is a really good (Windows only) program and works very well for making very high resolution and very detailed images out of many closeup shots. And free!!
That’s a nice panoramic shot but isn’t a linear panoramic like he’s mentioning. You can tell as you only see the right side of buildings on the left side of the image, the fronts of them in the center, and the left sides on the right side of the...