Nice...I'm still working on my first hack.

How did you go about building it?

I put a google maps iframe embed with coffee and terrain view selected in an html file with the header and added some css styles. Then loaded it them up to godaddy's ftp and host for the domain.

Annoying that scrolling doesn't zoom

switch to the Earth tab and scroll zoom as much as you want!

also double click to zoom

Very good, sir!