On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, John Rowland wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

Presumably built between two aerial photos of the area being taken or
something.

I found an estate with no rooves on... it looks like one of those diagrams
you see in estate agent windows.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...&t=k&z=19&om=1

Ooh, nice one!

If you look at the same estate in Windows Live Local, the Birds Eye
Views show the estate completed, but the plan view shows the stuff that
was demolished to make room for it.

I've come across a couple of cases of that with roads - the A120 past
Stansted, i think, which was on the map but not the photo. The A10 bypass
from Standon to the outskirts of Ware is still missing from the photos
(unless it's in a tunnel or something):

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=ware...&t=h&z=13&om=1

And am i right in think that's the skeleton of a dead wartime airfield
just to the east of Stansted:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...wloc=addr&om=1

?

There's another one:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...=k& z=15&om=1

Now a go-kart track and some football pitches.

And what are these mysterious road loops:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...=h &z=15&om=1

?

Another abandoned airbase:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...=k& z=15&om=1

It's amazing how easy they are to spot from the air (assuming they're not
decoys). Which is kind of unfortunate, given the context in which they
were built!

tom

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