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  1. Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

  2. Nick (Scots) said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    And quite a number of years older. The survey was done sometime
    in 1998/1999. From an aeroplane. It'll never be updated except
    with satellite imagery.

    --
    Nobby Anderson

  3. Nick (Scots) said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/


    Yes, nice hi res images of the gorms (1st place I looked). And very hi
    res of my street.

    --
    Mike
    Some pictures of the Scottish highlands here http://www.prog99.com

  4. Nick (Scots) said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/


    Better res - where it's available, and no 3D.

    druidh

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    Nick (Scots) said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    And quite a number of years older. The survey was done sometime
    in 1998/1999. From an aeroplane. It'll never be updated except
    with satellite imagery.

    Actually some areas are younger. My car has be owned for three yrs and it's in my mums
    drive !

  6. Nick (Scots) said:


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    Nick (Scots) said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    And quite a number of years older. The survey was done sometime
    in 1998/1999. From an aeroplane. It'll never be updated except
    with satellite imagery.

    Actually some areas are younger. My car has be owned for three yrs and it's in my mums
    drive !

    I wonder if they're using a mixture of satellite and low level then?
    Satellite where they have high res and low level where they don't.

    --
    Nobby Anderson

  7. Nick (Scots) said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    Depends where you are. Comparing side by side in my area (Stockport),
    Google Earth looks higher res and zooms in deeper. The MS jobbie feels
    clunky too (but then it probably detects I'm using a mac and gets sulky).

    Roy.

  8. Well I can date my area to Summer 2005, - paddling pool in the garden!

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    Nick (Scots) <[email hidden]> wrote:
    > Check out this sat photo website.
    > Better res. than google earth.
    >
    > http://local.live.com/

    And quite a number of years older. The survey was done sometime
    in 1998/1999. From an aeroplane. It'll never be updated except
    with satellite imagery.

    Actually some areas are younger. My car has be owned for three yrs and
    it's in my mums
    drive !

    I wonder if they're using a mixture of satellite and low level then?
    Satellite where they have high res and low level where they don't.

    --
    Nobby Anderson

  9. Bryan Hall said:

    Well I can date my area to Summer 2005, - paddling pool in the garden!

    Interesting - ours is definitely late 90's - next door neigbour has
    old garage, not new one in different position.

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    > Nick (Scots) <[email hidden]> wrote:
    >> Check out this sat photo website.
    >> Better res. than google earth.
    >>
    >> http://local.live.com/
    >
    > And quite a number of years older. The survey was done sometime
    > in 1998/1999. From an aeroplane. It'll never be updated except
    > with satellite imagery.

    Actually some areas are younger. My car has be owned for three yrs and
    it's in my mums
    drive !

    I wonder if they're using a mixture of satellite and low level then?
    Satellite where they have high res and low level where they don't.

    --
    Nobby Anderson

    --
    Nobby Anderson

  10. Nobody Here said:
    Bryan Hall said:

    Well I can date my area to Summer 2005, - paddling pool in the garden!

    Interesting - ours is definitely late 90's - next door neigbour has
    old garage, not new one in different position.


    Edinburgh is between april 1999 & july 2002 (my 1st car bought in 1999
    is outside my old flat).

    Cairngorm looks more recent as the funicular is there, seems to be part
    of a whole series of images taken of scotland.

    --
    Mike
    Some pictures of the Scottish highlands here http://www.prog99.com

  11. All i see is a map of where i live, nowt else

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    Quoted message said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    Nice view of traffic congestion on the M6 north of Birmingham. I notice
    these images were taken in the pre-M6 toll days.

    Adam

  13. Nick (Scots) said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    At least I can use it from Firefox running on linux. Google Earth doesn't
    work at all! (Google Local does though).

    --
    Mick (Working in a M$-free zone!)
    Remove blockage to use my email address
    Web: http://www.nascom.info & http://mixpix.batcave.net

  14. SammyJoUKBlue said:

    All i see is a map of where i live, nowt else


    Click on the word *Aerial* in the little white box. Took me a while to
    spot that too :-)

    --
    Dave McLaughlin

    [censored] Sapiens Non Urinat In Ventum

  15. mick said:
    Nick (Scots) said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    At least I can use it from Firefox running on linux. Google Earth doesn't
    work at all! (Google Local does though).

    Ditto here (on FreeBSD). Ironic really, don't you think, that it's a M$
    product?

    Parish

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    Quoted message said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    All i'm getting is a blank page (using ie) - anybody any ideas?

  17. On Sun, 28 May 2006 16:10:41 +0100, Parish wrote:

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    Ditto here (on FreeBSD). Ironic really, don't you think, that it's a M$
    product?

    Very! Mind you, I don't think that *everything* that leaves the "evil
    empire" is bad. I (very happily) use a Microsoft mouse at work too. :-)

    I'd have preferred to have Google Earth working though...

    --
    Mick (Working in a M$-free zone!)
    Remove blockage to use my email address
    Web: http://www.nascom.info & http://mixpix.batcave.net

  18. It doesn't seem to zoom in close enough to check out cars in the drive where
    I live ( out of town on the Surrey/Hants border) but Google certainly will
    .... I'll be sticking with Google !

    Martin
    --
    mjn at onetel dot com

    "Nick (Scots)" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

  19. I get the same if I zoom in close !

    --
    mjn at onetel dot com

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    Quoted message said:

    Check out this sat photo website.
    Better res. than google earth.

    http://local.live.com/

    All i'm getting is a blank page (using ie) - anybody any ideas?

  20. Quoted message said:

    It doesn't seem to zoom in close enough to check out cars in the drive where
    I live ( out of town on the Surrey/Hants border) but Google certainly will
    ... I'll be sticking with Google !

    Martin

    I've had my new car for 5 weeks and I can see it on my drive!

    --
    Mark
    _______________________________________
    Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Knob of Butter

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