aerial views of the UK.

[TomTom]

I have been looking at aerial views of the uk on multimap.com latley, its quite interesting (i think so anyway) if anyone knows a better site for aerial views please let me know. Could you give me some ideas of what I can have a look at in the uk from above? can anyone suggest owt interesting? mansions? etc?

cheers

[yorks2510]

I personally use a program called NASA WorldWind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/) - this is a hefty download, and needs a pretty good internet connection when running (as it downloads satellite imagery as you scan round) - but as a bonus, you can look at pretty much anywhere in the world.

At the moment, google maps only cover the US and southern Canada (I believe) - but there are stories that the rest of the world will be available soon, as the company they bought with the satellite data has the whole globe, and so would seem to be the natural thing to do once they manage to sort out any teething troubles with the US version...

Here's a news item that goes into more detail...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4448807.stm

hope this helps

[Chillum]

www.google.com/maps   As yorks says it's only North America, but impressive non-the-less. The scrolling is excellent. Click on "Satellite" at the top left.

[Chillum]

can't tell me left from me right  - top Right

[KebabMeister]

TomTom, I enjoy looking at airfields.  Even when it's zoomed out you can make out something man made so you zoom in and then 'find' the airfield.  There's many disused and active ones to search for.

Have a look at http://www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/06airfields/UK/ukmenu.htm

Select the county and it will display airfields.  Click on the airfield and then it will open it up in multimap.com