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    Mike Mason
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    Anquet now starting to supply aerial info at 1:50,000 scale at £39.95 a
    throw. Promising 1:25,000 in the future. Also promising more 1:25,000
    coverage of the country.

    They have a free demo of the 1:50,000 series but you need to log onto the
    site provided you already have the Anquet software.

    This is the email I got from Anquet.
    New!! Air photography for Anquet Maps.
    On September 24th, Anquet launched a new series of air photography products
    covering the whole of Britain south of the Scottish Lowlands. The initial
    six products in the range correspond to the areas covered by the Anquet
    1:50,000 series and provide the perfect addition to the existing product
    range. Photo Map products can be used in conjunction with any other Anquet
    product, at any scale.

    The new range offers some really useful features, including the capability
    to overlay names of mountains and hills as well as place names over the
    photos at the click of a mouse. Users can now view the Anquet Virtual
    LandscapeTM with either real landscape images or Ordnance Survey maps. Visit
    www.Anquet.co.uk to see further details of this exciting development and to
    order Photo Maps from the Anquet on-line shop.

    Current users can download a 100 square kilometre sample of aerial
    photography as a "map pack" which is available in the updates area, free of
    charge. To access this feature you will first need to download the latest
    software.

    Major expansion of 1:25,000 Series
    Anquet will shortly announce details of a significant increase in the number
    of 1:25,000 scale products available. New titles in England and Wales will
    carry aerial photography and will include new CRoW access land as it is
    opened. News of this major event will be circulated shortly and details will
    be posted on the Anquet web site.

    Mike Mason

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  2. Rob Kingston
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    I didn't see this post when I wrote a similar one. I'm intrigued to
    know what they mean by "1:25000" aerial photography though - surely
    the zoom function means the aerial photography is whatever scale you
    want? Or do they mean that more detailed aerial photos will be
    available?

    "Mike Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Anquet now starting to supply aerial info at 1:50,000 scale at £39.95 a
    throw. Promising 1:25,000 in the future. Also promising more 1:25,000
    coverage of the country.

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  3. Mark Thompson
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    Quoted message said:

    I'm intrigued to
    know what they mean by "1:25000" aerial photography though - surely
    the zoom function means the aerial photography is whatever scale you
    want?

    Isn't that the same with maps too?

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  4. theo
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    "Rob Kingston" <[email hidden]> schreef in bericht
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    I didn't see this post when I wrote a similar one. I'm intrigued to
    know what they mean by "1:25000" aerial photography though - surely
    the zoom function means the aerial photography is whatever scale you
    want? Or do they mean that more detailed aerial photos will be
    available?

    "Mike Mason" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    Anquet now starting to supply aerial info at 1:50,000 scale at £39.95 a
    throw. Promising 1:25,000 in the future. Also promising more 1:25,000
    coverage of the country.

    You can use the zoomfunction in 2D, not in 3D. Of course in 3D you can
    *zoom* in by moving towards your objective.
    When watching in 2D I advise not to zoom in more than 400% because the
    picture gets unsharp. It seems there will be arial photography from Scotland
    available in 2005. Fingers crossed.
    --
    Theo
    www.theosphotos.fotopic.net
    [email hidden]

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  5. Gordon
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    Mark Thompson <[email hidden]> wrote

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    I'm intrigued to
    know what they mean by "1:25000" aerial photography though - surely
    the zoom function means the aerial photography is whatever scale you
    want?

    Isn't that the same with maps too?

    No. 1:25,000 maps are pretty damn accurate in terms of placing of
    objects and paths.
    1: 50,000 maps are rather obviously less accurate, although if you don't
    use a GPS you wouldn't notice. :-)
    --
    Gordon

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  6. Rob Kingston
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    Mark Thompson <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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    Isn't that the same with maps too?

    Er, yes... but I think we all know what a 1:25k map looks like and
    what sort of detail it has on it, and the same for a 1:50k. I mean,
    Anquet comes with 1:250000 coverage of the whole country, but I
    wouldn't recommend navigating in the hills using a 500% blow-up of
    that...

    (Well, it should be equivalent to a Landranger, right?) :-)

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  7. Paul Saunders
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    Mark Thompson said:
    Quoted message said:

    I'm intrigued to
    know what they mean by "1:25000" aerial photography though - surely
    the zoom function means the aerial photography is whatever scale you
    want?

    No. What it means is that the resolution is the same as the 25k maps.
    1km squares on 50k maps are 200 pixels wide, 1km squares on 25k maps are
    400 pixels wide.

    Quoted message said:

    Isn't that the same with maps too?

    Well zooming in and out doesn't change the native scale of the map. The
    scale is named after the scale of the original printed map. Of course,
    the scale won't be correct if you zoom in and out, or even at 100% zoom,
    it will vary depending on the size of your monitor and what resolution
    it's set to. So the "scale" is pretty meaningless on the computer
    screen, it's only meaningful if you print out a map section at the
    correct scale, but you don't even have to do that, you can enlarge or
    shrink it as you please. You do need to print it at the correct scale
    if you want to use a romer to take grid refs of it.

    Paul
    --
    http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
    http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk

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  8. Paul Saunders
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    theo said:

    You can use the zoomfunction in 2D, not in 3D.

    In Memory Map you can zoom in or out before switching to 3D, so you can
    get 3D displays at different zooms, but of course the area is fixed,
    which is more limiting.

    Paul
    --
    http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk
    http://www.wildwales.fsnet.co.uk

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  9. Bernie Hughes
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    Mark Thompson said:
    Quoted message said:

    I'm intrigued to
    know what they mean by "1:25000" aerial photography though - surely
    the zoom function means the aerial photography is whatever scale you
    want?

    Isn't that the same with maps too?

    No. Technically, '1:25k mapping' refers to mapping recorded at a scale
    of 1:25k, irrespective of the actual scale you chose to look at it.

    --

    Bernie Hughes

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