Google Maps finally includes streetmaps for most of Europe.
This will no doubt prove very useful to travelling Europeans everywhere, but the big wow! factor still comes from the satellite imagery also included. For some reason, maybe uniquely for a major city, Oxford is still very poorly served.
Most of the Dreaming Spires are still unavailable at the highest zoom and the resolution of the rest of the city is startling poor. What is going on?
Stranger still, there are whole fields in the middle of the Fens (captured at a time without any cows) in amazing detail.
UPDATE: The imagery of the Other Place seems to date from late 2001 – first half of 2002, because the ‘Thatcher Wing’ of the Archives Centre in Churchill College is still being built. I was resident there during the initial phases of construction (until August 2001), so I’ll be scouring the area for myself.
I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see -- because I do not happen to be a 'Somebody' -- why my blog should not be interesting. My only regret is that I did not commence it when I was a youth.
October 4, 2006 at 6:53 pm
The enduringly poor quality of the Oxford imagery is a mystery indeed. It looks intentionally excluded from higher resolution image sets.
December 15, 2007 at 6:34 pm
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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