It'd be nice to be able to zoom the view out a bit or scroll the view. This would make it much easier to target things that would currently be off-screen as well as look back at areas you've been to. Ideally, you could even click on those areas to return, such as returning to the store when your inventory is full.
I am bumping this idea from ages ago, because i've ran into the same issues, for it's massively better to go from side to side versus up and down (and weakens extra sight by a fair degree because you lose lots of vision from the info bar at the bottom)
If it's too difficult to implement zooming like this, could we at least get an option to hide the user interface? That way we could take advantage of site radius bonuses more effectively.