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Aerial Imagery for the Entire U.K.

posted by Satri on Tuesday May 29, @09:07AM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the give-me-the-whole-planet-and-I-will-be-happy dept.

Mapperz tells us 192.com offers high resolution aerial imagery for the whole U.K.. From the blog: "The main advantage with this is that the aerial imagery is constant across the UK. Google Maps, Microsoft Live Local, Multimap mapping has patchy areas that are poor resolution in places."

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• Cool!

  (Score:2)

  by redgeographics (145) <{hans} {at} {redgeographics.com}> on Tuesday May 29, @01:55PM (#1455)
  ( http://www.redgeographics.com/ )

  This looks pretty cool. Interface takes some getting used you, you need to zoom all the way in, then the photos become visible. Resolution looks pretty okay on the few places that I looked at (Street and Great Yarmouth, neither of which are currently covered in high-res by Google).

  --
  Hans van der Maarel
• Not the entire U.K.

  (Score:2, Informative)

  by PB (768) on Wednesday May 30, @06:15AM (#1456)
  ( http://gis.umcs.lublin.pl/ )

  The title is misleading, I get 'Image not found' e.g. in Belfast. Apart from that, and the awkward interface, it seems pretty cool.
• Now 25cm oblique imagery of London

  (Score:2)

  by Satri (3) on Monday June 04, @08:37AM (#1467)
  ( http://alexandreleroux.blogspot.com/ | Last Journal: Friday March 17, @04:07PM )

  Read more here [contingencytoday.com].