John Rowland wrote:
They've replaced the photograph of London with a newer one. It was
taken just after dawn in midwinter, so there are shadows of naked
trees stretched across everything, making it nearly useless!

It can't be just after dawn, not everywhere anyway. Shadows in central
London (e.g. Nelson's Column) indicate that it's late morning, roughly
around 11:00. There's an event of some sort in Trafalgar Square. From
the works going on in Devonshire Road, Chiswick, I would say it was
around January or February this year. Colin says it must be a Sunday
morning. Between us on this NG, we ought to be able to pin it down to a
date.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

At bbs.keyhole.com there is a forum where photo updates are announced

http://tinyurl.com/eg5p3

On October 3rd, we updated Google Maps and Google Earth with the
following new imagery:

- Cross Plains, Texas
- the whole state of Minnesota, South Carolina, North Dakota, Missouri
(updated to 2005), Idaho, Maryland, and now full coverage for the
entire state of Texas
- Updates to Florida (most of the state covered now)
- 15 high-resolution cities in Germany
- update for London, 2006 data at 10cm
- South Georgia Island (courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey)
- Albany, OR; Lubbock, TX; Port Townsend, WA; Portage County, OH;
Trumball County, OH
- 32 Digital Globe high-resolution cities (updates and new coverage)

In addition there was a significant update to the regular Digital Globe
imagery all over the world.

Enjoy!

Also there is a thread started 3rd Oct headed, "why have you downgraded
the images of London?" with quite a few messages.

http://tinyurl.com/hsdod

Between us on this NG, we ought to be able to pin it down to a
date.

When was the work done to Ruislip Manor tube station? The hoardings on the
westbound platform are still up in the Google photos and the banking fresh
bare soil/earth - may help to date the photos

http://tinyurl.com/rydz4

"Thunderbug" typed



Between us on this NG, we ought to be able to pin it down to a
date.

When was the work done to Ruislip Manor tube station? The hoardings on the
westbound platform are still up in the Google photos and the banking fresh
bare soil/earth - may help to date the photos

http://tinyurl.com/rydz4


I still went to choir at the time, so it would be before summer 2005
(possibly winter 2004-5).

I see the photo of the patch around my home (HA8 5LW) is still the
ancient one that predates my next-door neighbours' extension in 2002 and
the BACS building is still standing. live.local has more recent images.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

I still went to choir at the time, so it would be before summer 2005
(possibly winter 2004-5).

Wasn't that the Eastbound platform?

They did Eastbound first, then Westbound. The Metronet website has a press
release dated December 2004 to say that the Westbound work would be 9th July
to 31 Dec 2005, but I think the platform was opened a little early and then
the landscaping that they're doing in the photo was done later.

Another possibility of finding a date is the old Victoria Hall Adult
Education centre in Ruislip Manor (big building facing the carpark directly
south of the tube station - http://tinyurl.com/jv5dr) which is there in the
photo, but was flattened earlier this year. Planning permission was granted
for the redevelopment in December 2005 and I know it was flattened by July
2006, but that doesn't narrow it down much does it!

Must've been a weekend though, the carparks at the large shops in South
Ruislip are full. Check the monster tree shadows outside Wickes at
http://tinyurl.com/zocoh !

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
I still went to choir at the time, so it would be before summer 2005
(possibly winter 2004-5).

When I had a look at google maps last I noticed that the Load of Hay
pub in Brent Street was still there with its car park.

That pub was demolished some time ago and there are now flats there. I
can't remember the exact dates though.

"Earl Purple" typed



Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
I still went to choir at the time, so it would be before summer 2005
(possibly winter 2004-5).

When I had a look at google maps last I noticed that the Load of Hay
pub in Brent Street was still there with its car park.

That pub was demolished some time ago and there are now flats there. I
can't remember the exact dates though.

I think it's about 4 years since that came down.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:08:11 +0100, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

"Earl Purple" typed



Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
I still went to choir at the time, so it would be before summer 2005
(possibly winter 2004-5).

When I had a look at google maps last I noticed that the Load of Hay
pub in Brent Street was still there with its car park.

That pub was demolished some time ago and there are now flats there. I
can't remember the exact dates though.

I think it's about 4 years since that came down.


Judging from the state of the White City development
(http://tinyurl.com/qg3e4), it's very recent indeed, around six months
old I'd guess. Not much longer than that because the temporary bus
layover area is in place and in use at the south-east corner of the
site, but work looks to be only just starting on the national rail
site. The eastern end of the shopping centre looks to be at a similar
height to what it is today, but there is not much there at the western
end yet (whereas today it is at a similar height to the eastern end).

The new covered tunnel for one of the Central Line through tracks (I
forget which one it is, Westbound I think) shows up quite nicely
through the middle of the site; on the previous set of imagery, the
whole site was empty apart from the sliproad off the old motorway, and
the exhibition/tennis court sheds were still visible.

Of course different areas of London may be from different dates, just
because White City is really new, doesn't mean it is all so new.

Ah, judging from the cars parked on the Hammersmith Road directly
outside my flat, I would say it is a Sunday morning picture, it's the
only day of the week that parking is allowed there.

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Peter Frimberley wrote:

Ah, judging from the cars parked on the Hammersmith Road directly
outside my flat, I would say it is a Sunday morning picture, it's the
only day of the week that parking is allowed there.

I think we decided that was the case earlier. A look at Brick Lane market
certainly confirms it!

What sort of date range are we down to? If it's only a few weeks across,
then knowing that it was a sunday morning when the tide was flooding would
probably pin it down. Working out the exact time is going to be trickier,
although once we have the date, i think we could do it with one of the
fortuitous sundial objects.

That said, we still don't have a really good one - something really tall
and thin, whose shadow is being cast onto flat, level ground. Does anyone
have an air navigation map of London? That would list masts, which might
do the job.

tom

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