okay... so what am i not doing right?

so far all i have is a 500mb version of a regular desktop globe.

i mean, i can zoom in by scrolling & see placenames.. but the images get a bit clearer so you can see a country, but then once you can see city placenames the images just get pixelated/distorted.

i moved over to a major american city & zoomed in and the place names kept zooming in until it was naming specific buildings. that's great... but you can't see them. just grey/green distorted background colour w/ floating placenames.

wtf?