http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

[Steve_Perry]

Totally off topic but this site is brill
Type in a UK location or even a detailed address and this site will show old maps (Circa late 1800's) for that area. The best feature by far though is a current day aerial photo option The only gripe is that the aerial photos only cover England and Wales Check out what your house looks like from the air!

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/

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[RichardM]

Cool! Thanks for posting that.

Not much existed where my house stands now.

 

[GrahamC230K]

I like that.

 

[RichardM]

The 'Enlarged View' and 'View Aerial Photo' are best.

 

[Steve_Perry]

I find that for the aerial photos that zoom level 2 is best as the pictures get a bit pixellated on zoom level 1. I also like level 5 as that captures the widest area

I thought you guys would appreciate the site, I've already wasted/spent a bit of time there since discovering it yesterday.

I've got various overhead shots of where I live/work/used to live with parents/studied at Uni hehehe. :bannana: :bannana:

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[simonl]

Cool. And I thought I might actually do some work this afternoon!!!

Shame there's no aerial views of Scotland though.

 

[Steve_Perry]

Originally posted by simonl
Shame there's no aerial views of Scotland though.

Yeah, that's a bit of a major omission imho. I was looking for aerial shots of Irvine when it came back with the "sorry, no can do" message. Least I could see that Irvine was all fields back in the late 1800's

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[GrahamC230K]

Can tell the current day aerial photos for my area are a few years out of date as they don't even have my house on them either!!

 

[Webby]

aerial photos

Nice one steve, i've sent info to some of my pals.