Just about the coolest thing EVAH!!

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If you live in London, go here:

http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trondbre/LondonMap/london.html

It's a GIANT arial photo/map of London. I can find my house! I can find Ed and Suzy's house! I can find the building where I work!

OK, I shouldn't post this at 4pm on a Friday when no one is around, this thread will die a sad and lonely death, but at least I know that I have found something to do for the next hour...

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

im playing the eastenders theme in my head

dum dum dum dd dd nana

― james (james), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

although that sounds more like flat eric

― james (james), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

If you click on the big squares, you get close-ups. I can see our garden. HEY!!! I see HSA sitting in a deckchair in our garden, disciplining and controlling his mind!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I want for for either Exeter, Northampton, or Dawlish.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

No you can't Kate - that photo was taken in 1999. (Go look at the London Eye).

If you take a look at Tottenham COurt Road you can see what time the photos were taken due to rather long shadows.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Whooooooo - I can see my house! And there are my flatmates, smoking and playing guitars and laughing and I hate being at work.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

(I was joking, actually...)

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i can see lords cricket ground or lisson grove

― james (james), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i meant i cant see lords or lisson grove

― james (james), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Annoying that the house I was actually living in during 1999 is just off the top left corner of the map... grrrrr!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Lords and Lisson Grove are also just off the top left of the map. But it's weird cause both Primrose Hill and Hampstead's hospital are on the map. Makes you realise how NorthWest NW really is!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Well if you go to multimap (ww.multimap.co.uk) and put your old address in you can flick to the ariel map version (and superimpose the A-Z on it to see how accurate) which is even coolerer.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Multimap isn't as cool because the bits aren't all put together like this. My friend downloaded them all and made them into one big image, but this is much better. I think the resolution is better, as well.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this map all of London? Dooes it go as far as Ealing? (just that it's taking a while to download)

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

No doesn't go very far out at all.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus, look at the Millenium Bridge! They've only got two pilons and a little spur on either side! You can actually see the cranes they are using to build it and large barges moving towards it as if bringing materials! Cool!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

This is brilliant!

I'm googling around now trying to find something similar for Oxfordshire. No more work for me this afternoon!

― C J (C J), Friday, 4 July 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The canal looks especially cool, for some reason. I'm trying to figure out the path it takes under the Angel Islington!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

That is way too cool.
I never knew roads could be that bloody insane.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no the Giant Map has got Noodles, too! You are in its power... you muft fubmit!!!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just found that Multimap thing (I didn't see Pete's message upthread)

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=452000&Y=207000&scale=25000&width=500&height=310&gride=451548&gridn=206630

― C J (C J), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I am going to be unable to leave work because of this thing! I wish I knew the postcode of HSA's mum's house so I could look at the White Horse from the air.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Step one: Find her postcode from 192.com
Step two put it in Multimap.
Bingo!

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Not having much luck. There is not a street name, because it's not on a street, it's off a dirt road. And Broad Town is so tiny, I can't find it. You'd think a White Horse would be easy enough to spot in an aerial photo!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I've found the house, but the resolution is so crap you can't see the horse. :-(

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh well, go home then.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to do better. I'm going to go and see the horse with mine own eyes tonight!

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanna go to London now, my city's streets are way too logical.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

This multimap is not even close on its "100 meters" claim. Other that or NB has radically changed their postal codes.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Multimap sucketh. I like the weird Norwegian site MUCH better.

OK, really, I'm leaving now. Have a good weekend.

― kate (kate), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You too, Kate.

― C J (C J), Friday, 4 July 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't get the Norwegian site to work :(

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 4 July 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

They have made me so busy this morning that I don't have time to puzzle over the giant photo. Sigh. At least I climbed the White Horse yesterday! It was covered in prickles so I pulled them out.

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

It stops a few streets short of my location in East Ham, sadly. I found UCL pretty easily, though.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot stay away from it. I keep finding new things to look for on it!

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

i have this book at home, its great. it does go as far out as ealing, but the magnification isnt as large (conversely the magnification for the central areas of london is larger than this page)

i also have one for the whole of the uk. it zooms into some of the other cities as much as it does for london.

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

kate, i have family (of sorts) that live by the white horse - they live in uffington and they know someone who doesnt have an anu5 - this really fucXed me up when i was younger. He was called blockhead - what an unfortunate start for an individual

― james (james), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, the Effington White Horse. It has a beak. I found out yesterday (from a helpfully placed sign beneath the Broadtown White Horse) that there are something like 14 White Horses around that part of the country! Hooray! I'd like to see them all! (But supposedly the round trip hike takes 6 days)

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

what does 14 horses constitute - is that a pack or a school or a pride - what??

― james (james), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

A herd of White Horses!

If wishes were horses, beggars would... erm... be halfway up chalk slopes pulling out prickles with their bare hands!

― kate (kate), Monday, 7 July 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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