Boing Boing point out the cool feature in Multimap that allows you to overlay maps on satellite photos of various areas. However, by far the coolest use is when you look at the aerial photographs of military installations like Fylingdales, Menwith Hill and Aldermaston and compare them with the surprising lack of information on the official OS maps.
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Saturday, October 9, 2004
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October 9th, 2004 at 18:29:41
That’s an extremely cool observation, that is. Well done.
October 10th, 2004 at 13:49:19
I should give due credit, the sport of pointing out such discrepancies was originally mentioned in an issue of NTK from a couple of years ago. In fact, it’s a bit funny seeing the whole map/aerial photo meme being spread as something new when it isn’t…