The new aerial overlay on multimap has decent photos of many areas of Scotland that weren't very well covered before on other systems.
http://www.multimap.com
http://www.multimap.com
Multimap Aerial Photos
- Thread starter Grooveski
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http://maps.live.com/ is one we often use professionally. Not sure how it compares with others in Scotland (don't get up north much unfortunately), it's the best I've found so far for Wales and southern Britain though
http://local.live.com/ has decent close coverage, we use it as a tool to do initial surveys before going out on the site.
Stephen
Stephen
Have you tried google maps? That is the best! Maps of the whole world! In some areas the magnification is so far down that you can see people and i have even found hippos!
I haven't looked closely at Google Maps, but the problem with all of these services is usually that they've only got really high-res stuff in urban areas, and sod-all for places like Knoydart or Torridon. Me, I'm usually far more interested in what sort of tree cover is actually in all those big empty spaces on the OS maps...
Google maps is the same as local live, virtual earth, etc(and the couple of commercial packages I've looked at), Scottish coverage is pants.
Spent a while last night screengrabbing and piecing together tiles in autocad, now have A3 laminated prints of scotties pad showing every tree. Brilliant! Better than a map in many ways. Think I can even see a ruined village under the bracken.
Spent a while last night screengrabbing and piecing together tiles in autocad, now have A3 laminated prints of scotties pad showing every tree. Brilliant! Better than a map in many ways. Think I can even see a ruined village under the bracken.
Spent a while last night screengrabbing and piecing together tiles in autocad, now have A3 laminated prints of scotties pad showing every tree. Brilliant! Better than a map in many ways. Think I can even see a ruined village under the bracken.
Great! You can't beat an aerial perspective for picking out those types of ground features. I remember being shown an aerial photo of my primary school playing field which clearly showed the old rigs - completely invisible from the ground.
I keep reading that one can view a newspaper from a Satelite - Does anyone know when are we might to get some decent Hi-res pictures?
One i've been using for a while is http://www.192.com/maps/?&MapSize=Large , you have to zoom through a few levels before you get to the aerial shots, but it is generally of a high resolution (even in Scotland).
Try Flash Earth. You can access images from the most popular mapping tools/sites with one quick and easy flash interface.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Don't suppose anyone knows where this overlay got to? It disappeared at the start of the year after microsoft bought multimap and didn't reappear again. These days it's just the same blurry splotch that you get on all the other systems.
If it's found its way into a commercial package I'd be tempted to splash out. I've been missing it.
If it's found its way into a commercial package I'd be tempted to splash out. I've been missing it.
I just had a look at my place and the image is at least 6 years old looking at the cars on the drive and the resolution is much lower than that of Google - nice interface though!
It's great isn't it, I used to do loads of aerial mapping photography from a WWII Dakota - it was great fun, but I loved printing them up and seeing the stuff that was just invisible at ground level!
Multimap data is back to being pants now too.
Just to clarify - here's the region in question. I know there are better images for various places and good coverage of down south in other systems but a lot of the blue bit in this picture was never covered too well anywhere. It is in Getmapping(but not in multimap anymore).
All the mapping sites seem to be using the same photo for my area (not too surprising)
It used to be quite good about a year ago or more but it was then updated to a new one which just shows clouds.
I know it is Scotland but we do get some clear days
It used to be quite good about a year ago or more but it was then updated to a new one which just shows clouds.
I know it is Scotland but we do get some clear days
Brilliant. That's the same data and lets you zoom all the way in like multimap did. No landranger overlay but beggers can't be choosers.
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