A Question for the Photobugs!

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I was wondering if you could depart your wisdom on me...

When does a photograph become a macro photograph?

Here's a good an answer as you'll probably get. Google Maps satellite view and Google Earth are further exaples of such.

In order to take gigapxel images yourself, you'll do best to look for a surplus aerial reconnoisance camera, which is a fairly cost prohibitive thing, not just for the camera, but for lenses and film media.

I thought it was when you used a macro lens to allow close focus. If I could access photo sites at work, I'd show you some of my photos taken with a macro lens.

Traditionally, macro photography is defined as any photo in which the subject has a 1:1 ratio with the photo negative (ie. life size, with no magnification at all) - or greater than life size, although with digital photography it's come to mean any magnified or close view of an object.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro_photography

Thanks so much for the assist. You've each given me much better answers than expected. Cleared up any confusion I was having.