June 22, 2005
My home and work on google maps
When Paul told me last night that Google Maps now did satellite, I didn't realise he was talking about the high-resolution photos that are now available (low-res was available for a while now).
Ugo links to his home, so I'm going to link to my home and work on google maps, to illustrate how close I am to work. Looking at the photos, they are approximately 1-2 years out-of-date .... there's now almost solid housing to the left, and as I grumbled back in March, the field in the middle has been dug up.
Of course, the blue route suggested by Google is suboptimal as it's (a) for cars and (b) seems to go through a bus lane. I've therefore done a quick edit to highlight the route I take (marked in green) via bike. Mind you, going straight across steep fields is less workable by car anyway ;-) Posted by savs at June 22, 2005 10:05 AM
Not much coverage outside of the cities yet... goes west as far as somewhere near Dereham and north from Cambridge about as far as Ely, then you're back in blurryland. Oh well, should be useful for getting an idea of the landscape when travelling to an area it does cover.
Hi,
I am from the Anita Anand programme Radio 5 Live-I can see from your Blog that you travel the Norwich to London ONE route. We are doing a piece about the train line on tonight's programme as I understand the network has offered bacon sandwiches, coffe's and Danish patries as a sorry to passengers for the delays over teh past few weeks. Would you be interested in doing an interview with us on the journey, do you still travel on it? Are you one of the passengers that has been offered a bacon sandwich as compensation for all the delays? Please contact me at the above email address or by telephone 020 8624 9506- sinead.heekin@bbc.co.uk
Posted by: Sinead at June 27, 2005 5:00 PM