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Re: Thanks for the reply...
Posted by Ron Henry on Thu Apr 25, 2002 01:52:45 PM
In reply top Thanks for the reply... posted by Mike Henniger on Wed Apr 24, 2002 11:46:38 AM
: ...but who was it on this board that was getting attemptin
: g to get images of the Syrina Spits? Was that something a
: vailable on the web? Or maybe it was something that not e
: veryone has access to.
:
: Regards,
:
: Mike
:
:
: : Mike,
: :
: : Unless I'm mistaken this is based on a millennium projec
: t
: : called getmapping.com.
: :
: : They aren't satellite images, it was all done with good
: ol
: : d-fashioned aircraft. There might even be an explanation
: o
: : f their methodology on the site.
: :
: : Up to date? Not at all. There is a one-time picture of e
: ac
: : h location.
: :
: : The one that really amuses me is RAF (USAF) Feltwell. So
: me
: : body has put some security 'blobbing' on the picture, wh
: ic
: : h I presume was to obscure something in the radar/satell
: it
: : e tracking / sigint area. But they've missed and blanked
: o
: : ut a bit of harmless field outside the airfield boundary
: .
: : (Last time I checked)
: :
: : Moggy
The getmapping.com maps are published as a VERY BIG & VERY HEAVY photographic atlas of England & Wales at c ?100 (sometimes found discounted at c?80). AS already said, the maps are from good old fashioned aerial survey. Publication date was late last year. I think Scotland will be published later. It's very impressive and attention was paid to precise edge matching. Can't remember the scale, but it's not constant - builtup areas are shown in greatest detail.
Ron