I want to zoom in the other direction, because in the big maps the small numbers are difficult to read.
Edit: also, you should be able to zoom in on the tiles, but, you're possibly running into an untested edge case, of which there are tons. Mac and mobile is under-developed as I'm a firefox/desktop curmudgeon. As you and others have noted, there is some interface goofery, but otherwise a mousewheel should let you zoom in until you see a moire pattern on a crt.
Not that you can zoom like this now, but you can pan if you hold the ctrl key down and left - click + drag.